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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
Politician
Statistician
Teacher
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Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
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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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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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The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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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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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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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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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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