English - Activist | May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Florence Nightingale
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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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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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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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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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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So 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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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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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
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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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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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