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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

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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Lose Myself Opportunity Practice Small
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Gift Life Live Small Yourself
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Back Nurse Progression Stand
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Alone Condition Cure Himself Nature Patient
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State

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