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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but 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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Peace Activist
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Trade Unionist
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Helen Adams Keller
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
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To get Congress to do anything.
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no 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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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
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I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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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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