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 NIGHTINGALEI have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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