Carl Sandburg Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Dance, Writing, Echoes

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

Carl Sandburg

Loss, Too Late, Weight Loss

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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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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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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg

Inspirational, Winning, Loser

"Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Carl Sandburg

Ducks, Competition, Grease

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

Carl Sandburg

Life, Time, Attitude

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Born: January 6, 1878
Died: July 22, 1967
Occupation: Writer
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