Helen Keller Quotes

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“ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart ” - Helen Keller This quote explains that beautiful things are not what's on the outside it's the inside what counts. This quote explains the point Helen Keller was trying to get across because she said blind/deaf people can do anything seeing and hearing people can do. “They must be felt with the heart” Helen was most deaf & blind people's inspiration she encouraged them that they could do more, better, anything everyone else could do it's just more work to succeed things you want in life.
Helen was born on june 27,1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was a family of oldest of two sisters and two older step brothers. Growing up

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