No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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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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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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