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 NIGHTINGALEDo not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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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.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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