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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.

Florence Nightingale

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Complain Greatness Himself Woman
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affection Herself Love Woman
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Hospital Stage

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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