Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHow very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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?
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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.
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