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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Helen Keller
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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Helen Adams Keller
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he who gets the most out of life.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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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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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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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 living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
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