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.
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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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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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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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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