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

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  I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected so

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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,

• Dorothea Dix:

  There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present su

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  To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the you

• Dorothea Dix:

  Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as t

• Dorothea Dix:

  My wish is to be known only thru my work.

• Dorothea Dix:

  Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles;