Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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