| To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| Character cannot be developed in ease and quite. Only through experience of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| College isn't the place to go for ideas. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| 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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- Helen Keller |
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| Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| The highest result of education is tolerance. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. |
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- Helen Keller |
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| 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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- Helen Keller |
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| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. |
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- Helen Keller |
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