Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMarriage 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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