No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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