We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from … - Florence Nightingale

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I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

Florence Nightingale

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing;. . . nature alone cures. . . . And what [true] nursing has to do. . . is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering. . . not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient. ' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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