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What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Attractions Bonds Country Devotion Enthusiastic Flower Hills Home Man Mountains Neighbourhood New Plains Range Sends Ties Valleys Which

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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

Topics: Call Child Commonly Country Delicate Ever Fragrant Frail Green Here Hundreds Known Leaves More Shining Violet Yellow

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Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Any Brings Comforted Day Ease End Fold Hands Home Hour How Led Life Oh Performed Regrets Rest Say Sinner Some Spirit Suffering Take Thine Train Useful Vain Wandering Well Work

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I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Alone Am Believe Condemned Every Life Must Study Thing I Am I Believe I Believe In

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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

Topics: Being Better Character Crime Degraded Except Fear Harsh He His Influence Made Man Measures Never Principle Radically Restrained Seldom Then

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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

Topics: Aversion Cards Dancing Delights Enjoyment Envy Fashionable Find Little Look May Parties Taste Tea Theatre Those Transitory Who

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Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: America Children Done Expense Exposure Guilt Me Miserable Rescue Some Vice Why Why Not Without

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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.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Before Duty Effect Give Give Me God He His Line Long Me Perform Shall Strength Surely Think Try Will Work I Think

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Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

~Dorothea Dix

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 4th, 1802

Died: July 17th, 1887

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