paralysis quotes

Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our heartsösuffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing† Better have pain than paralysis! 616

-Nightingale, Florence
  'Cassandra' pt.1, part of an unpublished work  Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause:  A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (1928).

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