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 NIGHTINGALEBy 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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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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