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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Florence Nightingale

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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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Call Family God Himself Important Religion
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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Breathe Drink Power Prayer

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