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I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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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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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
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Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
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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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