10 Quotes by Edith Cavell



  • Author Edith Cavell
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    Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

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    I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

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    Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

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    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 (On the eve of her execution)

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