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There is a physical, not mora...

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Poetry and imagination begin ...

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

By mortifying vanity we do ou...

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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Nursing is an art: and if it ...

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

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Nature alone cures. ... what ...

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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Hospitals are only an interme...

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

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For what is Mysticism? It is ...

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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Jesus Christ raised women abo...

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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Religion was important to me....

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

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Let us never consider ourselv...

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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Life is a hard fight, a strug...

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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Woman has nothing but her aff...

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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Nursing is one of the Fine Ar...

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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The true foundation of theolo...

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

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Go into a room where the shut...

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

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When you see the natural and ...

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

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No woman has excited "passion...

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

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Perhaps, if prematurely we di...

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

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The very elements of what con...

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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Asceticism is the trifling of...

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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