"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
— Ability

January 1, 1970

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Edward Everett Hale, in Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, A Year of Beautiful Thoughts‎ (1902), p. 172. This is often misattributed to Helen Keller since the 1980s.