How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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 very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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