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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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