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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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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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do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
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All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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