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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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No nation is wise enough to rule another.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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Life is an adventure or nothing
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We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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Rebuffed, but always persevering self-reproached, but ever regaining faith undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
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Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
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A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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