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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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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.
Florence Nightingale
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
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The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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?
Florence Nightingale
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Florence Nightingale
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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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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.
Florence Nightingale
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.
Florence Nightingale
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
Florence Nightingale
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
Florence Nightingale
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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