Helen Keller Quotes
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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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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All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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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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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
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A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.
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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
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Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
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Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.