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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Florence Nightingale

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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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