Helen Keller Quotes
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The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
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Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
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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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I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
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Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
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Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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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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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
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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 worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.
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The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.