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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.

Florence Nightingale

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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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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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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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