Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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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 ...
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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 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.
