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Florence Nightingale

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
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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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
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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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick

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