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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

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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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There is no song to your singing.
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I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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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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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.
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