Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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.
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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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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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