To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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.
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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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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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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 night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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