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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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Women
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the domestic hearth, which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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.
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It is very well to say be prudent, be careful, try to know each other. But how are you to know each other?
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a form of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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