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Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.
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There is only one event in my life which never loses its bitterness; which comes back on me like a retreating wave, going and coming again, which was and is my grief--I never had but one brother who loved and comprehended me.
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A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.
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When gone from hence, may nobody think of me again, except when one or two may think perhaps how I loved them
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The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.
31
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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When I saw them embracing each other, and heard their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight.
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My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.
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the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart
Attribution contested
The words are Keller's, but two things in the popular version are not. The wording is smoothed -- it usually appears as they must be felt with the heart -- and, more importantly, Keller does not present the thought as her own: she writes that her teacher explained it to her. On her own account the sentence belongs at least as much to Anne Sullivan.
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With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.
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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.
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do not hope to excite love except by love
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What to the intellect is old and worn-out is perennially young and fresh to the heart; curiosity is insatiable, but love is never tired.
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The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.
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Love at its highest point--love sublime, unique, invincible--leads us straight to the brink of the great abyss, for it speaks to us directly of the infinite and of eternity.
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To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.
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Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.
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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.