Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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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 time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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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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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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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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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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