Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhy have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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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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