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

Florence Nightingale

The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Body Master Society Soul Treatment
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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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
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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Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Call Family God Himself Important Religion
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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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Life Myself Pain
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.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
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.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick

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

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