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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.

Florence Nightingale

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Time Way World
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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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Action Feeling Result Wasted Time
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Lower Maintain Nurse Room Temperature
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Affection Herself Love Woman
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Beginning Lose Opportunity Practice Root Small
Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Gift Life Live Small Yourself
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

People Scheme Word

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