No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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