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.
Florence NightingaleWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence NightingalePassion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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