Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEPeople have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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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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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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 are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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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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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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