No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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