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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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