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• A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

  Carl Sandburg

  Liars, Lying, Deceit

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.192, 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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• I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Laughing, World

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• There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Heart, Silence

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Synthesis

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Veterans Day, Tests, Thank You Veteran

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• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hurt, Anger, Passion

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• Beware of advice-even this.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Advice, Design

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• Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Self Respect, Coins

  At his 85th birthday party on January 06, 1963. "The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns" by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82, 1980.

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• My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

  Carl Sandburg

  Names, Elusive, Captives

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Understanding, Way

  "In Reckless Ecstasy". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

  Carl Sandburg

  Let It Go, Wilderness

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Wisdom, Wind

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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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• A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Liars, Lying, Clothes

  Carl Sandburg (1921). “Smoke and Steel”

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• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  God, Baby, Children

  Remembrance Rock ch. 2 (1948)

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• There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

  Carl Sandburg

  Love You, Long, Cost

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Eye

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• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  Carl Sandburg

  Talking, Should Have, Political

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• Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Strong, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The woman named Tomorrow
  sits with a hairpin in her teeth
  and takes her time

  Carl Sandburg

  Teeth, Tomorrow

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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