Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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 an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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