"The dead hold in their hands only what…" — Carl Sandburg
"The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away."
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Carl Sandburg
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185 Quotes by Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg has 185 quotes on this site.
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I…
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
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Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned…
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Beware of advice-even this.
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There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in…
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Nothing happens... but first a dream.
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get…
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky,…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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