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Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller

Religion

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Helen Keller is saying that many good people focus a lot of effort on opposing evil, but if they instead focused that effort on showing love to others, evil would become powerless and ineffective. She suggests that love is a stronger and more effective force against wrongdoing than constant struggle or conflict.

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