Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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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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