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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

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

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

But the truth is the highest consideration. — Dorothea Dix

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

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

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

To illuminate the world, let your love shine like the morning sun. — Debasish Mridha

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire

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

God's providence is on the side of clear heads. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

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

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. — Michael Medved

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

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

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

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word. — John Of Kronstadt

People in your life leave you a rhyme,
On leaving they leave a new footprint in the Sands of Time. — Adhish Mazumder

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

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

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. — William, Saroyan

He moved until he stood close enough to share secrets, to dance. To kiss. — Brigid Kemmerer

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. — Rand Paul

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. — George Orwell

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

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

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

Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming? — Michael Phelps

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

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