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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

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  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of 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.

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  Sexy, Passion, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2005). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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  Angel, Heaven

  Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.18, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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  Helping, My Family, No Sympathy

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• Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

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  Chance

  1852 'Cassandra' pt.3, part of an unpublished work Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859).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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• There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

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  Disease, Conditions

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• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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  Nursing, Color, Said

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

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  Nursing, Air, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.9, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 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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  Party, Mean, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.200, Routledge

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• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

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  Nursing, Men, Doctors

  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

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  Healing, Recovery, Mean

  "Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not".

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• do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

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  War, Paper, Satisfaction

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.464, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• [On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

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  Fancy, Conversation, Companion

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• 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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  Organization, World, Permit

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

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• 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, Men, Thinking

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (1928). “"The cause": a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain”

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• 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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  Want, Moral, States

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

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• I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult, along with many other things such as getting a good education and also finding a good career.

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  Military, Men, Careers

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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• You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

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  Buddhism, Growth, East

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

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  Nursing, Should Have, Nurse

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• I can stand out the war with any man.

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  War, Men, Standing Out

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2010). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.258, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

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  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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• 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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  Nursing, Light, Sick

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 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.

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  Light, Color, Littles

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.84

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• For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

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  Nurse, Useless, May

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.160

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• Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their
  life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.

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  Dream, Struggle, Lasts

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria (1997). “Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions"”, p.19, SUNY Press

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