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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
Miss Smith
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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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