The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFlorence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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