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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More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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