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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
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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.
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.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
