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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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