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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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