To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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 am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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