Great Object Quotes by Florence Nightingale

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most… — J. G. Holland
• The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson
• The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson
• In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. — Sun Tzu
• The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance,… — Thomas Jefferson
• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale
• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats
• The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the… — James Gilmour
• If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the… — Joseph Addison

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