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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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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 of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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