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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
— Dorothea Dix
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Dorothea Dix
public figure, writer, neurologist, psychologist
1802 – 1887
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.
All Quotes by Dorothea Dix
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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
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The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
— Dorothea Dix
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Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
— Dorothea Dix
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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
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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
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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
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'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
— Dorothea Dix
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My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
— Dorothea Dix