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 NIGHTINGALEThe time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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