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Carl Sandburg - Remembrance Rock (1948)

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

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His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

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If she [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.

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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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Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

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The sea folds away from you like a mystery. You can look and look at it and mystery never leaves it.

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Carl Sandburg

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Born: January 6, 1878
Died: July 22, 1967 (aged 89)
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