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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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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 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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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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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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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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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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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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