The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
HELEN KELLERIt was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.
More Helen Keller Quotes
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I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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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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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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There is joy in self-forgetfulness.
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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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