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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Florence Nightingale

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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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