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Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

~Dorothea Dix

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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

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My wish is to be known only thru my work.

~Dorothea Dix

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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

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By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

~Dorothea Dix

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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

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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

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With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

~Dorothea Dix

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It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

~Dorothea Dix

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 4th, 1802

Died: July 17th, 1887

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