Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEChrist, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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