Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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 very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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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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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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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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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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