The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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