For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhy have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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