The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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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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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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