Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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