I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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