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English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)

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Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

– Florence Nightingale

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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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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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To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

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Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

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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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What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.

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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as

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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

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