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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Hellen Keller
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Hellen Keller
3 Quotes & Sayings By Hellen Keller
Hellen Keller was born in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880. She was the seventh of nine children. Her parents wanted her to become a school teacher but she chose instead to attend the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts. She graduated from there at the age of 19 and worked as an instructor at the school until it closed in 1917
Keller began working at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, Dr. Benjamin M. Keller.
He was also a blind man, and together they established the School for the Blind at Vineland, New Jersey. It would continue to operate until 1951. Keller spent her last years teaching after she became legally blind in 1931, when she was only 29 years old.
She died on June 1, 1968, at age 88.