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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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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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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 a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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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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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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