Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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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 most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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