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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

Florence Nightingale

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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back Nurse Progression Stand
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
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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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
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.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Important Lesson Observation Practice
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
I can stand out the war with any man.
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Man Myself Stand War
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
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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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small

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