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Be heroes in an army of construction.

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
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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I have found life so beautiful.
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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 only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
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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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It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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Look the world straight in the eye.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
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Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
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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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There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
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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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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
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