Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
affection
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
buddhism growth east
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
nursing nurse patient
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
diversity heaven kingdoms
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
nursing light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.