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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
English Activist
Born: May 12, 1820
Died: Aug 13, 1910
God Health Patient Speak World You
Related authors: Carne Ross Catherine Booth Charles Bradlaugh Edward Carpenter Emmeline Pankhurst John Burns Sylvia Pankhurst Thomas Clarkson
Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night. Florence Nightingale
You Patient Increases Everything Secure Bad Risk Having Tenfold He Put Him Fallen His Up After Room Asleep Rouse Night
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. Florence Nightingale
Life Service God You Woman Strange My Life Nothing Tell Has-Been Would Would-Be Ability See Give Could He How Been His Led Very Done Paths Information Ordinary If I Could Show Her
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
Daily World Heroes Duty Those Maddening Greatest Affairs Domestic Whilst Grind Who
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it. Florence Nightingale
Life God You Gift Law Discipline Life Is A Nothing Live Out Must Small Splendid Smallest Greatest Greatest Things While Far Your Grow Things
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. Florence Nightingale
Selfish Vain Entirely Rather More Martyr Lazy Sacrifices Make Narrow Narrower Themselves
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say. Florence Nightingale
Service God Me Say Voice Take Spoke His Did Form
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale
Words Feelings Think Ought Distilled Results Which Themselves Actions Waste Bring
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect. Florence Nightingale
Important Lesson Symptoms Nurses Neglect Evidence Kind Indicate Given Observe Importance Most Practical None How Reverse Improvement The Most Important Which Them Teach
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. Florence Nightingale
Time Day People Long Sit Enough Late Rarely More No Time Because Up Get Themselves Why Early
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. Florence Nightingale
Wonderful Opportunity Lose Matters Beginning Small Never Practical How However Itself Often Urging Roots
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore. Florence Nightingale
Struggle World Hundred Way Ten Rather Ten Times Drown New Surf Idly Discovers Times Than Die Shore New World Stand
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. Florence Nightingale
Food Fault Patient Sick Cold Nursing Generally He Taking Faint Disease After
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. Florence Nightingale
Health People Dark Light Lose Dirty House Well Always Get Get Well Stops Children Want Cannot Again Etc Unhealthy Ill Among Growth
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them. Florence Nightingale
Speak Will Wish Sick Too Invariably Rather Read Always Than Children Story Prefer Them Express Shy
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. Florence Nightingale
Day Better Face Every Too Nurse Ought Be Careful Frequently Very Hands Much Wash Her Careful
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow. Florence Nightingale
Sickness Healthy Sick Air Once Follow Constructed Hospitals Badly House Houses Insure Stagnant Certain
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. Florence Nightingale
Woman Women Farm Slept More Excited Bed Passions Than Same English Lived Among
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. Florence Nightingale
Physical Object Color Feel She Around Said How Materials Effect Us Actually
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. Florence Nightingale
Women Experience Sympathy Almost Europe Large

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