Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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