Carl Sandburg Quotes

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

  Carl Sandburg

  Forgotten, Said, Be Careful

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  For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sight, May, Lost

  "Wade House".

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  Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Love Yourself, Literature

  "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".

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• If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

  Carl Sandburg

  Law, Tables, Facts

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• Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

  Carl Sandburg

  Silence, Personality, Immortality

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.542, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

  Carl Sandburg

  Yesterday, Done, May

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Inspiration, Imagination

  Carl Sandburg, Arnie Bernstein (2000). “The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928”, p.7, Lake Claremont Press

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sight, America, People

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Loneliness, Learning

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• The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

  Carl Sandburg

  Certainty In Life, Life Is, Certainty

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• Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

  Carl Sandburg

  Loss, Too Late, Weight Loss

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• It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Reflection, Men

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• I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

  Carl Sandburg

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Incidentals (1907) p. 8

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• Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Decay, Forget

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  Carl Sandburg

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Running, Hands

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Laughter, Entrepreneur

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  Carl Sandburg

  Work, Writing, Carpe Diem

  In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21

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