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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.

Florence Nightingale

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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Art Fine Nurse Oneself
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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.
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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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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.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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