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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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. – Michelangelo

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