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. Th… - Florence Nightingale

"The very first element for having control over others is, of course, to have control over oneself. If I cannot take charge of myself, I cannot take charge of others. The next, perhaps, is — not to try to "seem" anything, but to be what we would seem.
A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard — not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion. She must exercise authority without appearing to exercise it."

To have no food for our heads no food for our hearts, no food for our activity, is that nothing? If we have no food for the body, how do we cry out, how all the world hears of it, how all the newspapers talk of it, with a paragraph headed in great capital letters, DEATH FROM STARVATION! But suppose one were to put a paragraph in the Times, Death of Thought from Starvation, or Death of Moral Activity from Starvation, how people would stare, how they would laugh and wonder! One would think we had no heads nor hearts, by the total indifference of the public towards them. Our bodies are the only things of any consequence.

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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.

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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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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.

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.