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Helen Keller
American blind & deaf educator
| “ | Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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| “ | Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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| “ | College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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| “ | Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content | ” |
| “ | I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. | ” |
| “ | Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure.
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| “ | Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. | ” |
| “ | Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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| “ | Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. | ” |
| “ | Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. | ” |
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