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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 has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

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  Giving, Ordinary, Would Be

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Real

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.114, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

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  Names, Remember

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• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

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  Nursing, Sick, Bed

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

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  Jobs, Successful, Starting

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

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  Religion, Doe, Destruction

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.148, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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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  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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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

  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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  Nursing, World, Way

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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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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

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  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

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• For the sick it is important to have the best.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Sick, Important

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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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  Art, Organization, Giving

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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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  Taken, Nursing, Years

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.1

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• Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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  Might, Christ, Complainers

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

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  Nursing, Joy, Leader

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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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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  Sick, Abuse, Care

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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.

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  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

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  Home, Opportunity, Civilization

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

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  Nurse, Worthy, Deserve

  Florence Nightingale (2016). “Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

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  Health, Recovery, Mean

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.59

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• 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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  Mind, Medical Profession, Doctrine

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