Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVariety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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