Florence Nightingale (English - Activist)
May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
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.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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