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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Helen Keller

Will

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller

People

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

Skill

World

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

Danger

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

Ideas

College

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.