I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALETo understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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