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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 Nightingale

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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Beautiful Effect Healing
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Attribute Excuse Myself Success
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Civilization Hospital Stage
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
Never give nor take an excuse.
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Excuse Reason
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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Circumstance Creation Heaven Ourselves
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
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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Absence Employment Enthusiasm Greatness Object Trifle
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Expectation Family Help Myself Sympathy
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Female Future God

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