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Helen Keller

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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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Ideas without action are useless.
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.
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I hung about the dangerous frontier of guess, avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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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 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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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
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God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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