There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever give nor take an excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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.
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