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American author who was deafblind. These lines are from her public-domain essay Optimism (1903).
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
My optimism does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.