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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Never give nor take an excuse.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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.
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.