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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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