In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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 am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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