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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?

Florence Nightingale

Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
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
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
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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Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cold Food Medicine Mistake Patient Sick
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Cleaning Lying Possible Rural Water
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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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Brilliant Color Form Object Patience Recover
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
People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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People Scheme Word
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Hard Work Job Start Success
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
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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Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Amount Fear Spirit
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Call Family God Himself Important Religion

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