I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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