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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

People Scheme Word

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