Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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 a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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