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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
Born: Apr 4, 1802
Died: Jul 17, 1887
Good Life Me Time Will You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted. Dorothea Dix
Life Heart My Life Faithful Discouraged Difficult Vocation More Had Disappointed Devoted Energetic Which Much Painful Conquered Defeated
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. Dorothea Dix
Teacher Character Mind Few Energy Neither Give Small Nor Duties Elevate
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us. Dorothea Dix
Good Back Spent Those Days Look Greater Around Bliss Doing Doing Good Than Us Usefulness
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. Dorothea Dix
Love Peace Victory Despondency Pleasure Has-Been Willow Laurel Poetry Been Branch Branches Mourning To Love Conquest Olive Palm Consecrated
They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' Dorothea Dix
Word Nothing Say Vocabulary Adopt Know Reply Done They Say Here
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. Dorothea Dix
Crime Petty Degrading Habits Miseries Attendant Indolence Opens Errors Train Dependence Vice Create Many
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. Dorothea Dix
Love Beauty Rose Flower Emblem Purity Fair Lily Her Associate
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food! Dorothea Dix
Food Daily Soul Suffering Trials Gift Long Power Drunk Met Rich Pain Medicine Too Other Secondary Minds Joined Sharing Blissfully How Foreign Were Hearts May Oh Craving Body Deeply Fountain
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces. Dorothea Dix
Difficulty Fragrance Emblem Delicacy Puts New Name New England South Graces Which Forth Jasmine England Elegance
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible. Dorothea Dix
Patience People Impossible Care Would Accomplish Person May Which Appear Things
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. Dorothea Dix
Government Best Humanity Duty Kind Steady Firm Leads Indulgence Exercise Repair Prisoners Truest May Children Cannot Which Convicts Granted
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt? Dorothea Dix
Me Guilt Miserable Some Without America Done Expense Children Vice Rescue Exposure Why Why Not
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years. Dorothea Dix
Future Time You Will Reading Spend Books Solely Pleasure Solid Harvest Pursuit Studying Hours Passed Leaves Years Golden Useful Enjoyment Gather
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. Dorothea Dix
Remember Soil Our Those Sung Besides Immortal Poets Know Well Houses Praises However Sake Cultivation Verse Celebrated Green Native Lovely Justly Who European Gardens Daisy
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship? Dorothea Dix
Great Crime Society Other Criminal Hundred Hundred Years Respecting Diminish Has-Been Citizenship Restore Shall How Reduce Been Years Perplexed Encouraged Hand Questions Reform Order Useful Last Two
Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. Dorothea Dix
Knowledge Men Master Passions Order Prejudices Need
Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!' Dorothea Dix
Life Work Day Home Suffering Rest Vain Say Ease Fold Some Spirit Take Performed Hour Well Comforted How Led Sinner End Train Hands Any Oh Wandering Regrets Useful Thine Brings
My wish is to be known only thru my work. Dorothea Dix
Work Wish Only Thru Known
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. Dorothea Dix
Knowledge Fly Pleasures Wings Remains Take True True Knowledge Forever Themselves Away
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. Dorothea Dix
Happy Thought Men Honorable Indeed Statesman Consistent Count True His Friends Patriots Really Who Honest
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. Dorothea Dix
Great You Important Give Attention Advantages Arithmetic Means Your Many
The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times. Dorothea Dix
Great Our Moral Mental Individuals Instructor Educators Times Communities Enlightened
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence. Dorothea Dix
Character Man Fear Better Crime Made Harsh Degraded Restrained Except Seldom Never He Principle His Being Influence Then Measures Radically
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery. Dorothea Dix
Good Blessing Path Follow Trodden Slavery
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements. Dorothea Dix
Life Feeling Doubt Others Reliance No Doubt Proper Prevailed Habits Through Wrong Since Been Condition Any Childhood Nourished Many Right Strengthened Early Early Childhood Position
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called. Dorothea Dix
Theatre Envy Tea Dancing Those Find Delights Look Parties Taste May Little Transitory Aversion Who Fashionable Enjoyment Cards
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