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I can stand out the war with any man.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
Politician
Statistician
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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
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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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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