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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
Politician
Statistician
Teacher
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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Words
People
Schemes
Founded
Vast

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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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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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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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.
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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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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
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Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
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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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Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived those dreams go at last.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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