Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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