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The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
Helen Keller
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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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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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The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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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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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
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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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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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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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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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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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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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Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
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I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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Look the world straight in the eye.
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