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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Florence Nightingale

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
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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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
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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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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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Domestic Entertainment Nursing Party Time Woman Work
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
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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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
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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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy

Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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