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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhen shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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