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A 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.

Florence Nightingale

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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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