People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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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?
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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