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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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