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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEBy 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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