Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. Florence Nightingale More Quotes by Florence Nightingale More Quotes From Florence Nightingale The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ. Florence Nightingale next female christ She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. Florence Nightingale nursing color said Heaven is neither a place nor a time. Florence Nightingale angel heaven Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced. Florence Nightingale chance Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. Florence Nightingale recovery healing mean The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. Florence Nightingale hygiene science lying 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 nursing selfish sacrifice Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852 Florence Nightingale offending hurt long 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. Florence Nightingale nursing law years Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Florence Nightingale expression law ideas A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, Florence Nightingale girl pride opportunity Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. Florence Nightingale average science death Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty. Florence Nightingale underestimate healing beauty We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. Florence Nightingale physicians soul school The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party. Florence Nightingale nursing party mean The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. Florence Nightingale nursing sick skins When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea. Florence Nightingale sick coffee science 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. Florence Nightingale nursing selfish war For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time. Florence Nightingale inward diversity heaven If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything. Florence Nightingale would-be ordinary giving
