How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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