Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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