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" 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
Feet
Me
Need
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" I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty. "
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Me
Think
Long
" 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. "
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Victory
Pleasure
Peace
" 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! "
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Power
Gift
Food
" 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. "
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Early
Childhood
Life
" The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. "
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Admirable
Stand
Will
" Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care. "
Dorothea Dix
Value
Think
Progress
" With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible. "
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People
Care
Impossible
" 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
Envy
Theatre
Tea
" 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
Ireland
France
Scotland
" 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. "
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Day
Believe
Opportunity
" Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. "
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Unhappy
Time
People
" To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good. "
Dorothea Dix
Good
Doing
Doing Good
" 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
Friends
Thought
Happy
" Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority. "
Dorothea Dix
Exercise
Numbers
Rules
" What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar. "
Dorothea Dix
Green
Country
Yellow
" Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives. "
Dorothea Dix
Speak
Language
Excellence
" 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
Elegance
New
Fragrance
" There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers. "
Dorothea Dix
Escape
Best
Nature
" They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' "
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Know
Here
Nothing
" I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. "
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Believe
Life
I Believe
" 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. "
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Life
Painful
Heart
" Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt? "
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Children
Why
Me
" 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. "
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Practice
Work
Salvation
" 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
Harvest
Reading
You
" Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. "
Dorothea Dix
Wings
True
Fly
" 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
Hand
Discipline
Fact
" By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. "
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Your
Great
Attention
" 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? "
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Citizenship
Society
Questions
" 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. "
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Head
Tree
River
" 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
Educators
Our