There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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?
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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