Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEBy mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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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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