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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 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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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Birthday, Optimism, Pleasant Surprises

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

  Carl Sandburg

  Glasses, Rooms, Fool

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Needs, Action

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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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• A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Tree, Down And

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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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• 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 are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Men, Stronger

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.447, 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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• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cheer, Giving, Literature

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Moving

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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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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dying, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (1978). “Breathing Tokens”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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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• 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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• Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

  Carl Sandburg

  Long, Looks, Use

  1922 Slabs of the SunburntWest,'Primer Lesson'.

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