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Dorothea Dix quotes: To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

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 quotes: I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Dorothea Dix quotes: Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: But the truth is the highest consideration.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

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

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 quotes: Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

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 quotes: The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

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

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Dorothea Dix quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Dorothea Dix quotes: Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

Dorothea Dix quotes: Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

Dorothea Dix quotes: Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.

Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.

Dorothea Dix quotes: My wish is to be known only thru my work.

My wish is to be known only thru my work.

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

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

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

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Dorothea Dix quotes: No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.

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

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

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

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

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

Dorothea Dix quotes: I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

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

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

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