American - Author | June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968
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.
Helen Keller
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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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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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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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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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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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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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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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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