Dorothea Dix famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Evil #Ill #Antidote
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
-- Dorothea Dix

#Cheer #Sadness #Heal
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

#Insanity #Humanity #Fever
[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

#Fashion #Long #Choices
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

#Compassion #Want #Cold
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

#Men #Use #Hours
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
-- Dorothea Dix

#Each Day #Tomorrow #Trouble
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

#Gentleman #Insane #Naked
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
-- Dorothea Dix

#Compassion #Fund #Species
But the truth is the highest consideration.
-- Dorothea Dix

#Truth Is #Consideration

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