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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

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

Deserve Live Nurse Training Worth
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
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
The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Crave Day Desire Light Return Sick
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
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
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work

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