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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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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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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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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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 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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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