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Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

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
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Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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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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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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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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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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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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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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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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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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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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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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