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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWe 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.
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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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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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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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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By 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.
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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