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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAsceticism 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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