Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIf 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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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?
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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