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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Happiness
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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