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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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Never give nor take an excuse.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
