A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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When 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?
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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