The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAt present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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