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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Journey Ourselves Place Special
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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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
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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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
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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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Hard Work Job Start Success
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Master Society Soul Treatment
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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