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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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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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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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Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
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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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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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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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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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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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The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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