Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEBy 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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 stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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