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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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