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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Statistician
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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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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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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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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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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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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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