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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale

Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Average Observation Seduce
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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Act Circumstance Greatness Organization World
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Breathe Drink Power Prayer
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Better Myself Nurse Word
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.
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Family Girl Herself Opportunity Pride Shame Thinking Willing Wrong
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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Darkness Direct Experience Hurt Light Qualify Sick
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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Death Man Morning Myself Remember Sick Time
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Care Cruelty Necessary Sick
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.
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Bed Excitement Live Man Myself Sleep Woman
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Devotion God Love Mystic Religion Suffering Work
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Adjective Experience Substance
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Intellectual Oneself Passion Woman
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Experience Gain Nurse Progress Word
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.
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Time Way World
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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