Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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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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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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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 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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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