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  • But the truth is the highest consideration.

  • I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

    Lying   Thinking   Bed  
  • 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.

    Men   Use   Hours  
    Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11
  • Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

    Evil   Ill   Antidote  
  • Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

  • Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

    Cheer   Sadness   Heal  
  • I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

  • I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

  • 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 Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.25
  • [To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

    Fashion   Long   Choices  
  • Man is not made better by being degraded.

    Men   Made  
    Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.25
  • Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

    Hands   Order   Years  
  • in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

    Compassion   Want   Cold  
  • I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

    Strong   Real   Men  
    "Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts". Book by Dorothea L. Dix, 1843.
  • Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

  • The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

  • I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

    Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4
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