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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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