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«Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.»
«Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.»
«Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Adventure,
Security
| Keywords:
adventure, as a whole, Children of Men, daring, does not exist, exposure, in the long run, long run, mostly, outright, safer, security, superstition, The Children, The Children of Men, The Long, The Long Run
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, not for, plenty
«The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.»
«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.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Adulthood,
Silence
| Keywords:
adult, appreciate, blessing, blind person, deaf, deaf person, deaf to, early, early days, joys, My early days, sight, Sight and Sound
«I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Thankfulness
| Keywords:
handicapped, handicapping, handicaps, thank
«I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Achievement,
Greatness,
Idealism
| Keywords:
chief, humble, Long To, tasks
«My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness»
«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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