Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you - Florence Nightingale

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took an excuse.

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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.

2.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

3.
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.

4.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.