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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Helen Adams Keller
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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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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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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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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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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Look the world straight in the eye.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
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The world is sown with good but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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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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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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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. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.
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