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Florence Nightingale Quotes - Page 6

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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.

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.

Florence Nightingale
Nursing, Vanity, Selfishness
"The Life of Florence Nightingale" by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.

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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Want, Moral, States
Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale
Nursing, Air, Nurse
Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.9, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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, Years, Law
Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.6

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