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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Helen Keller

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Helen Keller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 27
Died: 1968
Died: June 1
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Alabama
Helen Adams Keller
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The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
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When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
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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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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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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
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There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
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Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
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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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Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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I never fight, except against difficulties.
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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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