I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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.
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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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