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Edith Cavell
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“I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.”
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Edith Cavell" by Helen Judson in The American Journal of Nursing (July 1941), p. 871
“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Economist (15 October 2010), p. 107
“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Edith Cavell (1865–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source