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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Florence Nightingale

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beautiful Effect Healing
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Attribute Excuse Myself Success
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Adjective Experience Substance
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Activity Moral Possible Sketch World

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