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> [I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-think-even-lying-on-my-bed-i-can-still-do-something/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

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## More by Dorothea Dix

> [ \[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:\] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/to-a-woman-who-claimed-she-d-rather-be-dead-than-unconfined-and/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/every-evil-has-its-good-and-every-ill-an-antidote/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-have-no-particular-love-for-my-species-but-own-to-an-exhaustless/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/while-we-diminish-the-stimulant-of-fear-we-must-increase-to-prisoners/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [Man is not made better by being degraded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/man-is-not-made-better-by-being-degraded/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/the-tapestry-of-history-has-no-point-at-which-you-can-cut-it-and/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-think-even-lying-on-my-bed-i-can-still-do-something/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/be-of-good-cheer-for-sadness-cannot-heal-the-national-wounds/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/society-during-the-last-hundred-years-has-been-alternately-perplexed/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [But the truth is the highest consideration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/but-the-truth-is-the-highest-consideration/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-proceed-gentlemen-to-call-your-attention-to-the-present-state-of/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/a-man-usually-values-that-most-for-which-he-has-labored-he-uses-that/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/in-proportion-as-my-own-discomfort-has-increased-my-conviction-of/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-come-to-present-the-strong-claims-of-suffering-humanity-i-come-to/)

[Dorothea Dix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-dix/)

> [I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-dix/i-have-learned-to-live-each-day-as-it-comes-and-not-to-borrow-trouble/)

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