I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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 craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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