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I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
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Edward Everett Hale in a statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts? (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172; This has been misattributed to Keller in published works since at least 1980. Keller and Hale were good friends, and letters to Hale can be found in her youthful autobiography The Story of My Life (1902). In 1910 Keller dedicated her poem "The Song of the Stone Wall" to Hale who had died in 1909.

 

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