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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

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Master Society Soul Treatment
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Female Future God
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
For 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Devotion Habit Nurse Ourselves Safety
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick

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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