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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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