The highest result of education is tolerance.
¶ "Optimism" (1903)
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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) American author and lecturer
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
¶ (Attributed)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
¶ (Attributed)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
¶ (Attributed)
Attributed in Charles L. Wallis, The Treasure Chest (1983). Not verified.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
¶ (Attributed)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
¶ (Attributed)
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
¶ (Attributed)
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.
¶ (Attributed)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
¶ (Attributed)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart.
¶ (Attributed)
An opportunity to do kindness is too precious to neglect.
¶ (Attributed)
No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
¶ (Attributed)
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