"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or……" — Florence Nightingale
"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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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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