Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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