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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
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! Dorothea Dix
Life Happy Harrowing Those Dwell Apart Public Public Life Who
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. Dorothea Dix
Life Alone Believe Every Must Study Am Condemned Thing
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work. Dorothea Dix
Work Good Word Practice Every Our Would Would-Be Embracing More Had Doctrines Well Gospels Been Cautious Salvation Essential Taught Where Explicitly Rejecting
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. Dorothea Dix
Time Me People Unhappy Nothing Others Variance Seems Habit Likely Make Themselves
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. Dorothea Dix
Happiness Future Time You Mind Value Past Spend Once Proper Something Make Return Knows Learnt How Fitting Improving Then Use Your Usefulness Necessary
If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. Dorothea Dix
Life Freedom Luxuries Considerably Danger Ease Those Diminished Find Only Had Freedom From Comforts Which Procured Should Many Things
The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained. Dorothea Dix
Discipline Will Other Intervals Everywhere Fact Except Maintained Most Renewed Prisons Hand Oversight Times Vigilant Appeared
I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire. Dorothea Dix
Best Day Man Opportunity Values Prison Believe Sum Earning Give He Hour Most Industrious Mode Tasks Which Acquire Themselves Convicts Uses
Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock. Dorothea Dix
France Adopted Had Houses Been Ireland Scotland York Often Lancaster Roses Her
The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him. Dorothea Dix
Offended Daughter Tree Changed Laurel Crowned Sacred River Head Him Leaves His Forever Gods Ordered After Apollo Should Who Origin Her
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. Dorothea Dix
Me Sets Enough Shall Feet Well Well Enough Always Opposition Get Alabama Kentucky Tonic Need
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