For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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