The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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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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