Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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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 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 amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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 think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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