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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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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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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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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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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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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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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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