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No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

— Helen Keller Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937 (1938)

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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Optimism (1903)

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)

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