No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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