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 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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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