Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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