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Things must be felt with the heart.

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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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!
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My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
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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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I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
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THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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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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What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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