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Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

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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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, Come and find me, come and find me.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
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The people know what the land 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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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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The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
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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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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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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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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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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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