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The martyr sacrifices themselv...

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 Nightingale 136 quotes

The very first requirement in ...

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

So never lose an opportunity o...

So 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.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

The world is put back by the d...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Were there none who were disco...

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

I have lived and slept in the ...

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.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

She said the object and color ...

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Hospitals are only an intermed...

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

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Apprehension, uncertainty, wai...

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

People talk about imitating Ch...

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

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We are what we repeatedly do. ...

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.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

Let people who have to observe...

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

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What the horrors of war are, n...

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

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Heaven is neither a place nor ...

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

The true foundation of theolog...

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

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To understand God's thoughts, ...

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

For what is Mysticism? It is n...

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.

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Variety of form and brilliancy...

Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.

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A human being does not cease t...

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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Let us never consider ourselve...

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Florence Nightingale 136 quotes

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