I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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