Helen Keller Quotes
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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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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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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That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
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Smell is a fallen angel.
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Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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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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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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To get Congress to do anything.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
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So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
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I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
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I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.