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Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
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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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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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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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
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The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
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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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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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