Helen Adams Keller

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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it."	Miscellaneous
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Ability
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Adversity
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."	Miscellaneous
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light! Give me light!' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour."	Art, Darkness, Education
"I am only one, but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do something I will not refuse to do the something I can do."	Miscellaneous
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."	Miscellaneous
"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound."	Darkness, Education, Happiness
"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."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Duty
"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."	Change, Time
"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Excellence, Men
"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."	Beauty, Happiness, Joy
"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."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."	Miscellaneous
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."	Miscellaneous
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."	Life
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."	Books, Friends, Men
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Change	Character
Courage	Darkness	Desires
Difficulty	Duty	Education
Effort	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Fear
Friends	Goals	Good
Happiness	Honesty	Joy
Knowledge	Learning	Life
Light	Love	Men
Military	Miscellaneous	Monarchy
Nature	Patience	Power
School	Sin	Strength
Success	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Writing