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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.

Florence Nightingale

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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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