She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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