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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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• The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Circumstances

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.18, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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  Female, Next, Christ

  1852 'Cassandra' pt.4, part of an unpublished work Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause: A Short History of theWomen'sMovement in Great Britain (1928).

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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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• 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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  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

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

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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

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  Jesus, Passion, Men

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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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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• 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.

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  Nursing, Light, Air

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

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

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  Names, Remember

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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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• Never give nor take an excuse.

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  Motivational, Giving, Excuse

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

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  Art, Nursing, Nurse

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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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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

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  Nursing, Civilization, Stage

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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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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• 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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• We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

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  School, Soul, Physicians

  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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• 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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• 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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• I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

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  Peace, Military, Fighting

  Florence Nightingale, Sue M. Goldie (1997). “Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea”, p.296, Manchester University Press

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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.

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  Mind, Wish, Body

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.85

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