A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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