Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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 attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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