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• There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

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  Pain, Nursing, Looks

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.91, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. 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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• diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

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  Adjectives, Nouns, Disease

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.47

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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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• 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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• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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  Nursing, Sacrifice, Peculiar

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.201, Routledge

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• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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  Diversity, Heaven, Inward

  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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• 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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• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

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  Vanity, Filling Up, Want

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

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  Suffering, Doctrine, God Love

  Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.20, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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  Affection

  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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• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

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  God, Religious, Character

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• Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

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  Nursing, Nurse, Patient

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.34

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

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  Nursing, Opportunity, Nurse

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

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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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• The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

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  Night, Praying, Drink

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• The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

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  Nursing, Tea, Get Better

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.53

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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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  Passion, Atmosphere, Would Be

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.184, Routledge

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• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

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  Coffee, Science, Sick

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

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• The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

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  Lying, Science, Hygiene

  Letter to Medical Officer of Health, November (1891)

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• Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
  Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.

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  Expression, Law, Ideas

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.41, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

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  Light, Break Through, Habit

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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  Horse, Nursing, Men

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

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  Selfish, Nursing, Sacrifice

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• Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

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  Unseen, Holiness, Divine

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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