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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
Miss Smith
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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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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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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.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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 was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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