That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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Religious 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.
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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.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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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.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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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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