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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 p...

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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking fo...

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One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring...

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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of...

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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything bett...

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything bett...

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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability ...

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the ...

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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

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

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman h...

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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability...

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Florence Nightingale

Statistician

Born: 1820-05-12

Died: 1910-08-13

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a British nurse, a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician.More