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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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