Dorothea Dix Quotes

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.
DOROTHEA DIX

Admire Brain Evidence Fashion Intelligence Man Run Superior Women
But the truth is the highest consideration.
DOROTHEA DIX

High One Liner Truth
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

Better Crime Degrade Fear Himself Influence Limitation Man Measurement Principle
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
DOROTHEA DIX

Borrow Come Future Learning Live Myself Thinking Trouble
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.
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Calamity Cure Experience Fever Humanity Insanity Subject
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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Cut Design History Leave Point Yourself
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
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Bed Lying Myself Thinking
Man is not made better by being degraded.
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Better Degradation Man One Liner
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.
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Day Labour Man Time Torture Value
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
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Cheer Goodness Healing Sadness Strong Wound
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
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Compassion Love Myself Particular
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

Attention Call Myself Obedience Present State
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
DOROTHEA DIX

Cure Evil Goodness Healing One Liner

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