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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Nightingale

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
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

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Patient Refusal Tea
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
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.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Gift Life Live Small Yourself
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
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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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
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

No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

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