I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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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.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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