Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
タグ: humanity, government, children, best

"Dorothea Dix"の他の名言

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
タグ: unhappy, people, time, me
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
タグ: back, doing, look, good
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
タグ: true, wings, fly, knowledge
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
タグ: slavery, path, blessing, good
My wish is to be known only thru my work.
タグ: known, only, wish, work
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