It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWoman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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 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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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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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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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.
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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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