For the sick it is important to have the best.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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