The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWomen have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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