Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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 human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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