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Carl Sandburg Quotes
«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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The Onion,
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«The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.»
«I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.»
«Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.»
«The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to»
«Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.»
«A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.»
«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.»
«I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.»
«A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(
Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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The Finest,
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