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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.
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If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep.
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It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Every struggle is a victory.
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Had it not been for the persistent encouragement of Miss Sullivan, I think I should have given up trying to write altogether.
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Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.
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I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women.