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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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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea
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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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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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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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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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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
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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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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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I hung about the dangerous frontier of guess, avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
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Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
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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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