I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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