I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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