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Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
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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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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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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If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
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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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Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
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There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
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And those who say, I'll try anything once, often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
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I am! I have come through! I belong!
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What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.
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God, let me remember all good losers.
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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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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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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
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The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.
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And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.
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