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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEChrist, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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