We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWomen have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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