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For the sick it is important to have the best.

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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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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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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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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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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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do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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