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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Call Family God Himself Important Religion
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
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 NIGHTINGALE

Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Equality Habit Leadership
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition Sick Specific
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Cruelty Necessary Sick

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