Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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