The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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