Helen Keller Quotes - Page 16

• Your success & happiness lies in you.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Success Happiness

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• I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

  Helen Keller

  Past, Years, Fancy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.7, Om Books International

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

  Helen Keller

  Real, Mean, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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• For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

  Helen Keller

  Past, Atheism, Wish

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Philosophy, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Green Fields, Sky

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International

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• God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

  Helen Keller

  God, Men, Dominion

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

  Helen Keller

  Wonderful Friends, Interesting, Has Beens

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• To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

  Helen Keller

  Wise, Disappointment, Brave

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.107, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

  Helen Keller

  Ignorance, Light, Greed

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• The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Sides, Priceless

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• The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, People, Vision

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• Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Succeed, Neighbor

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.108, American Foundation for the Blind

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• When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

  Helen Keller

  Brain, Mind, Use

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.56, 谷月社

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

  Helen Keller

  Age, Spirit, Widowers

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, People, Joy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

  Helen Keller

  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

  Helen Keller

  Good Friend, Walks

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• Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Men, Self

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Imagination

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

  Helen Keller

  Giving, Damn, Radical

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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• I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

  Helen Keller

  Beach, Ocean, Air

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

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