The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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