Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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