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We 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.

Florence Nightingale

Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
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.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
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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Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking

We 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.

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