Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Florence Nightingale

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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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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.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Devotion Sculptor
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Destruction
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Root Small
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Remedy
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Hospital Stage
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Way
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Patient Refusal
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.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Hospital
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.

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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Seduce
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.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Employment Enthusiasm Object Trifle
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Obedience
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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