I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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