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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?

Florence Nightingale

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Color Effect Feeling Material Object Physical
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Female Future God
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Adjective Experience Substance
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 NIGHTINGALE

Affect Color Effect Physical Way
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Patient Refusal Tea
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain

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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