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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Law is no explanation of anything law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
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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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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
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All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
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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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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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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
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