Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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 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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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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