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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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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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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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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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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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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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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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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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