Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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