Helen Keller Quotes - Page 16

• Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

  Helen Keller

  Business, Self, Oligarchy

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• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

  Helen Keller

  Past, Atheism, Wish

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Night, Light

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• When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

  Helen Keller

  Brain, Mind, Use

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.56, 谷月社

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, People, Joy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

  Helen Keller

  Age, Spirit, Widowers

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• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

  Helen Keller

  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

  Helen Keller

  Good Friend, Walks

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To get Congress to do anything.

  Helen Keller

  Congress

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.69, Matthew Gordon

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• What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

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  Joy, Use, Tire

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.175, Book Tree

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• I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Rejoice, Disturbing

  "To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller".

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• If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

  Helen Keller

  Perfect, Greek, Musical

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.174, 谷月社

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• If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Purpose, Way

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• I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophy, Creeds, Objectives

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.27, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

  Helen Keller

  Feels

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• Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Giving, Understanding, Give Me

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• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Heart, Joy

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  HELEN KELLER (1960). “MY RELIGION”

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• I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Vision, Golden

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• I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Eye, Ears

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.57, 谷月社

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• We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

  Helen Keller

  Evil, Way, Knows

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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