That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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?
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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