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

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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

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Bagwalas

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Draw Hard Mystic Word
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Circumstance
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Hospital
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.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Domestic Nursing
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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Lower Temperature
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Easy Prudent
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Back
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Culture Mindset Specific Stability
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Cure Patient
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
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Willing
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Measurement

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