The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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.
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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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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 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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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The 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.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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