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There is no song to your singing.

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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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
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A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
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For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
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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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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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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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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.
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