Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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