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Florence Nightingale
English
Activist
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#May
#First
#Harm
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Words
#Actions
#Results
#Waste
#Feelings
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Woman
#English
#Women
#Bed
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Success
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Fear
#Spirit
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.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Sacrifice
#Death
#World
#Development
#Gifts
#Conventionality
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Opportunity
#Beginning
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Effect
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Experience
#Europe
#Women
#Sympathy
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#World
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#First
#Harm
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.
Florence Nightingale,
English
Activist
#Martyr