Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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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.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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