Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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 can stand out the war with any man.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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