Helen Keller Quotes

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• Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks…
• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
• A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
• Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul…
• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
• 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.
• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble…
• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life…
• The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
• When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has…
• The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
• A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
• With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but…

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