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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

Topics: Associate Beauty Fair Flower Her Lily Love Purity Rose

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The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Character Duties Elevate Energy Few Give Mind Neither Nor Small Teacher

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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

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Topics: Around Back Bliss Days Doing Doing Good Good Greater Look Spent Than Those Us Usefulness

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Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.

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Topics: Beautiful Cultivated Delicious Flowers Fruits Garden May Minds Most Most Beautiful Neglected Now Only Produce Weeds Which Will Yield Your

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No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Blessing Follow Good Path Slavery

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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

Topics: Been Branch Branches Conquest Despondency Laurel Love Mourning Olive Palm Peace Pleasure Poetry To Love Victory Willow

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I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Any Difficult Early Feeling Find Full Heart Joy Lights Now Shed Sorrow Strikes Sudden Taught Tears Tide Unexpected Up

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In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Counsel Example Except Good He Instruction Man Must Order Will

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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

Topics: Any Arbitrary Authority Enforced Established Exercise Exhibition Firmly Increased Increases Kindly May Must Necessity Never Numbers Prisons Rules Suffer Understood Vigilance While Would

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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

Topics: Conquered Defeated Devoted Difficult Disappointed Discouraged Energetic Faithful Had Heart Life More Much My Life Painful Vocation Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 4th, 1802

Died: July 17th, 1887

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