For the sick it is important to have the best.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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