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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
US blind & deaf educator [more author details]

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller
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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.: Helen Keller
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content: Helen Keller
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.: Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.: Helen Keller
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.: Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller
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Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.: Helen Keller
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.: Helen Keller
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.: Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.: Helen Keller
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.: Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.: Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.: Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.: Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.: Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.: Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.: Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
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