I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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