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I 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.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
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do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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