I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAt present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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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.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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