Dorothea Dix quotes

Dorothea Dix quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“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.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“[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.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“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.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“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

Source : Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11

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“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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“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 Dix

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

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“But the truth is the highest consideration.”
-- Dorothea Dix

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