No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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