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… - Florence Nightingale

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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.

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, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!