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“although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

Helen Keller

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Optimism: An Essay
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1903
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The sentence holds suffering and human overcoming together, giving Keller’s optimism a basis in endurance rather than pretending suffering is absent.

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Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The surrounding passage explicitly says her optimism does not rest on the absence of evil.

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