Carl Sandburg - Time Quotes

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

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

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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

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The machine yes the machine
never wastes anybody's time
never watches the foreman
never talks back.

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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

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The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.

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Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.

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

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Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

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I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

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Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

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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.

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