Dorothea Dix

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.

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These are some quotes by American author Dorothea Dix Activist, who lived between April 4, 1802 and July 17, 1887.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

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

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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

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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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