In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor the sick it is important to have the best.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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