No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any 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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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 want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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