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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Peace Activist
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Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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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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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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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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