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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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