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 NIGHTINGALEPeople have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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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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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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