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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.

Florence Nightingale

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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 martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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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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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 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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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