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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

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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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Blind
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The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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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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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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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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What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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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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The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.
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Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
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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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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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