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Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Poetry
Great
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Heart

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
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Is love the sweetness of flowers?
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you.
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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