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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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