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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

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity
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.
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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
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
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

God Measurement Purpose Understand
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Condition Culture Mindset Sick Specific Stability Weakness
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Definition Doctor Horse Man Nurse Obedience
Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
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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Alone Goodness Interest Life Product Remedy
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Bed Room Shut Sick
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Art Fine Nurse Oneself

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.

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