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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
Florence Nightingale
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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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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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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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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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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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature that is, of Holiness.
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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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