The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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.
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