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  • I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
    - Dorothea Dix
  • Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
    - Dorothea Dix
  • I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
    - Dorothea Dix
  • If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished.
    - Dorothea Dix
  • All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
    - Dorothea Dix