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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.

Florence Nightingale

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Bed Room Shut Sick
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Constitute Element Goodness Nurse Reality Sick
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

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

Convince Paper Satisfaction War Yourself
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Convention Death Development Sacrifice World
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Entire Lazy Narrow Sacrifice
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Average Equality Habit Leadership
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Arrangement God Ideas Man Prayer Religious Thinking
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Content Reach World
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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Enthusiasm God Home Law Life Oneself Wind
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Goodness Nurse Patient Wake
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Life Myself Pain

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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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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