The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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