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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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 can stand out the war with any man.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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