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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.

Florence Nightingale

To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
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.
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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
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
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Heaven One Liner Place Time
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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Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Change Death Destruction Existence Human Place
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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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
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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Excellence Fear Repeat Spirit
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
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick

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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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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