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Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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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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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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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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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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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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Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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