I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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