The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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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 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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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