"Religious men are and must be heretics now-……" — Florence Nightingale
"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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Florence Nightingale
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85 Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we…
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances…
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that…
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To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
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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 to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
— Wilkie Collins
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
— Cindy Sherman
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