Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
art nursing nurse
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose
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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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Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.
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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
school soul physicians
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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[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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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.