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 NIGHTINGALEChrist, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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