It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The 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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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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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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