425 Quotes by Carl Sandburg


  • Author Carl Sandburg
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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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  • Author Carl Sandburg
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    Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

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    And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

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    The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

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