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 NIGHTINGALEWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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