“Acho que os sentimentos se perdem nas palavras. Todos deveriam ser transformados em ações, em ações que tragam resultados.”
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
"The Prisohouse of Home" in: "Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England" - Página 20, de Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale - Publicado por Duffield and company, 1930 - 425 páginas
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You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 94