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.
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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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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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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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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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