Woman has nothing but her affections, — and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. - Florence Nightingale

The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

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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.

Perhaps it is not true to speak of God as a judge at all, or of his judgements. There does not seem to be really any evidence that His worlds are places of trial but rather schools, place of training, or that He is a judge but rather a Teacher, a Trainer, not in the imperfect sense in which men are teachers, but in the sense of His contriving and adapting His whole universe for one purpose of training every intelligent being to be perfect. … I think God would not be the Almighty, the All-Wise, the All-Good, if he were the judge, in the sense that the evangelical and Roman Catholic Christians impute judgement to him. … Our business is, I think, to understand, not to judge. What He does, as far as we know, to rule by law down to the most infinitesimally small portion of His universe, not to judge.