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Quote by Florence Nightingale
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifi

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. – Florence Nightingale

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Florence Nightingale
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. – David Mitchell

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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. – Friedrich Schiller

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