Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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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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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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 expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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 first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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