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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHeaven is neither a place nor a time.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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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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