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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
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Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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