Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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