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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

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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Great
Needs
Heart
Responsive

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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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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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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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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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The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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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 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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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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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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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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