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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
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Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
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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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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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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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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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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
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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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Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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Rebuffed, but always persevering self-reproached, but ever regaining faith undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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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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