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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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.
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Affair Convince Domestic Greatness Hero
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Back Nurse Progression Stand
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Care Each Other Easy Prudent Talk
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
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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