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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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.
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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 think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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