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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Helen Keller
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

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Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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