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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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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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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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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a form of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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 stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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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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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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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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