I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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