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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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 the sick it is important to have the best.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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