Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDo not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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