Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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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