The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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