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 NIGHTINGALEWere there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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