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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI can stand out the war with any man.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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 can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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