A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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