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Helen Keller
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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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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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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty.
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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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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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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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