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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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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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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
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Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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Law is no explanation of anything law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
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Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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