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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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 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 one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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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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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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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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Law is no explanation of anything law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
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