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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Direct Qualify
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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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Day Return
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Rural
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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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
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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 use the word nursing for want of a better.

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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Word
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
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Patient Wake
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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Religious
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion Mystic
I can stand out the war with any man.

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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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