Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I 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.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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