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Florence Nightingale, a British nurse and statistician, is hailed as the founder of modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820, and died on August 13, 1910. Nightingale gained fame for her nursing work during the Crimean War, where she improved the conditions of military hospitals.

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Famous Florence Nightingale Quotes

“Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer”

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Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.”

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Author:Florence Nightingale

“If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.”

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Author:Florence Nightingale

“I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.”

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“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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Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

“The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.”

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Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

“May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!”

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Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale