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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAt present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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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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