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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

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Breathe Drink Power Prayer
I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Man Myself Stand War
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Harm Hospital Requirement Sick
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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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Europe Experience Sympathy Woman
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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Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
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
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Remember Scream Yourself
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
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Charge Head Myself Question Right Simplicity

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