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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.

Florence Nightingale

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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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 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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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