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When you see the natural and ...

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

No woman has excited "passion...

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Perhaps, if prematurely we di...

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Go into a room where the shut...

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

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Asceticism is the trifling of...

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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Women never have a half-hour ...

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

I attribute my success to this...

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

The world is put back by the d...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

When you see the natural and a...

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Christ, if he had been a woman...

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Remember my name-- you'll be s...

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

I use the word nursing for wan...

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

You must go to Mahometanism, t...

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

In a sick-room or a bed-room t...

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Women never have a half-hour i...

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Never underestimate the healin...

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

We know nothing of the princip...

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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Life is a hard fight, a strugg...

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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Live your life while you have ...

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in 'fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will' but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Starting a job and working har...

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

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