Helen Keller Quotes
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Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
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Smell is a fallen angel.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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To get Congress to do anything.
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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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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
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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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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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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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Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.
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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
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It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.