American - Activist | April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Dorothea Dix
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'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
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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.
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I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
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My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
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I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.
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I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
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There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
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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.
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Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
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Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.
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By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
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