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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived those dreams go at last.
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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
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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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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.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.
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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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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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