Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWere there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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