I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I 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.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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