To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction,… - Helen Keller

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To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.

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About Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.

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Birth Name: Helen Adams Keller

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كنت أدرك كل الإدراك ان كل امرئ راغب في تحصيل المعرفة الحقيقية لابد من ان تكون لديه من الصعوبات ما يتعين عليه مواجهتها وحده ..فليس هناك طريق سهل معبد إلي المعرفة !

True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.

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