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Your success and happiness lie in you.

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
Writer
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Inspirational

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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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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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
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Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
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Blindness separates people from things deafness separates people from people.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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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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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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