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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

Florence Nightingale

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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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Affection Herself Love Woman
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
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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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Complain Greatness Himself Woman
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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Art Devotion Fear Nurse Paint Preparation Sculptor
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
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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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success

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