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.

About Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale () (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She...

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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.