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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Florence Nightingale

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Female Future God
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Excellence Fear Repeat Spirit
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
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 NIGHTINGALE

Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
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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Affect Color Effect Physical Way
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Domestic Each Other Live Present Society
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Gift Life Live Small Yourself
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero

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