American - Author | June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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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.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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