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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.

Florence Nightingale

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Fight Live Man Murder Myself Stand
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Condition God Himself Minister Raise Slave Woman
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
For the sick it is important to have the best.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Best Care Important Sick
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

People Scheme Word
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Draw God Hard Heaven Mystic Place Time Word
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Important Lesson Observation Practice

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