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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
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Linguist
Orator
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Suffragette
Trade Unionist
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Tuscumbia
Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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Wings

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We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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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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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
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I could never stay long enough on the shore the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
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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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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
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He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
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I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
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I will eat grandfather for dinner.
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