Devotion Quote by Florence Nightingale

“That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.” quote by Florence Nightingale — Download Open image

“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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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…

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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no…

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals…

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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the…

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Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from…

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and…

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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…

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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…

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