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> [Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/face-your-deficiencies-and-acknowledge-them-but-do-not-let-them/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/face-your-deficiencies-and-acknowledge-them-but-do-not-let-them-2/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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## Other authors on Deficiency

## More by Helen Keller

> [He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/he-who-is-content-with-what-has-been-done-is-an-obstacle-in-the-path/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-rejoice-to-live-in-such-a-splendidly-disturbing-time/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/the-clatter-of-a-changing-world-is-not-pleasant-and-those-who-have/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/be-of-good-cheer-do-not-think-of-today-s-failures-but-of-the-success/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/when-indeed-shall-we-learn-that-we-are-all-related-one-to-the-other/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-have-visited-sweatshops-factories-and-crowded-slums-if-i-could-not/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/if-we-do-not-like-our-work-and-do-not-try-to-get-happiness-out-of-it/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/alone-we-can-do-so-little-together-we-can-do-so-much/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-do-not-want-the-peace-which-passeth-understanding-i-want-the/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/although-the-world-is-full-of-suffering-it-is-also-full-of-the/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/love-why-it-is-what-everybody-feels-for-everybody-else/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/blindness-separates-us-from-things-but-deafness-separates-us-from/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/a-simple-childlike-faith-in-a-divine-friend-solves-all-the-problems/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [“A beam from the everlasting sun of God. Rude and unresponsive are the stones; Yet in them divine things lie concealed; I hear their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/a-beam-from-the-everlasting-sun-of-god-rude-and-unresponsive-are-the/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

> [I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-can-see-in-what-you-call-the-dark-but-which-to-me-is-golden/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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