Helen Keller Quotes
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
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The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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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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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.
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Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
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I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
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The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
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Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.
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The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.