Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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