In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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