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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Variety 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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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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