There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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