If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone.
HELEN KELLERGreat poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
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We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
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People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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Literature is my Utopia
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College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
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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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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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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.
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