Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWoman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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