Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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 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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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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