It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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