Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. Florence Nightingale More Quotes by Florence Nightingale More Quotes From Florence Nightingale I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it. Florence Nightingale mepathgodworld 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 followsicknesssickhouse 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 healthlightchildrenpeople Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room. Florence Nightingale youspeakfallmoving 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 badyoupatientnight 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 sickspeakwishchildren
