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Florence Nightingale
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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
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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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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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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 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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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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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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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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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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?
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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