The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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 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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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