Edith Cavell Quotes
Best 8 Quotes by Edith Cavell
“I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.”
“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
“I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end. Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty. This time of rest has been a great mercy.”
“Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to allied refugees.”
“Patriotism alone is not enough.”
“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”
“They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
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“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – ‘devoted and obedient’. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”
