Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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