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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
Biographer
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Journalist
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Trade Unionist
Writer
Galesburg
Illinois
Carl August Sandburg
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There is no song to your singing.
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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading Keep Off.
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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
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A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
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