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 NIGHTINGALETo understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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