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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Florence Nightingale

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
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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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

God Measurement Purpose Understand
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
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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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beautiful Effect Healing
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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