Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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