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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.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: First Harm Hospital May Principle Requirement Seem Should Sick Strange Very

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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.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: All The World Before Belief Choose Dead Friends God Know Learned Make Married Me Most Path Social Stand Where World I Have Learned

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Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: After Asleep Bad Everything Fallen Having He Him His Increases Night Patient Put Risk Room Secure Up You

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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.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Always Children Express Invariably Prefer Rather Read Shy Sick Speak Story Than Them Too Will Wish

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

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Topics: Almost Europe Experience Large Sympathy Women

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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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Topics: Die Discovers Drown Hundred Idly New New World Rather Shore Stand Struggle Surf Ten Ten Times Than Times Way World

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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Again Always Among Cannot Children Dark Dirty Etc Get Get Well Growth Health House Ill Light Lose People Stops Unhealthy Want Well

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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.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Actually Around Color Effect Feel How Materials Object Physical Said She Us

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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Air Badly Certain Constructed Follow Healthy Hospitals House Houses Insure Once Sick Sickness Stagnant

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Activist

Born: May 12th, 1820

Died: August 13th, 1910

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