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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

Florence Nightingale

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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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Amount Bed Care Comfort Experience Observation relief Sick
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
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
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Condition Sick Specific
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Attribute Excuse Myself Success
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Equality Habit Leadership

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

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