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When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

Johnny Cash

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
JOHNNY CASH

Heaven Hell Learning Man Myself Place
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
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Change Friendship Lose Need Old Yourself
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
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Children Goodness Man Mom Myself Shoot Son
Life and love go on, let the music play.
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Life Love Music Play
My arms are too short to box with God.
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Fight God Hands Myself
I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
JOHNNY CASH

Boundary Compassionate Conscience Heart Life Myself Pain Suffering
When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
JOHNNY CASH

Better Forgiveness God Myself
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
JOHNNY CASH

Born Darkness Deep Face God Heart Holy Space Tears Vision
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
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Country Equality God Heaven Wasted
It’s good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people.
JOHNNY CASH

Goodness Hate People Right Yourself
You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
JOHNNY CASH

Believe Desperate Frustration Give Up Myself People
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
JOHNNY CASH

God Goodness Honesty Important Live Man Myself Performance Pride Try Way Work
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Country Flag Freedom Love Myself Praise Right Shoot Weapon Yourself
If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself
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Opinion Politics Yourself
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
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Flame Night Rose Sleep Strong White
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
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Bond Comfortable Friendship Happiness Love Peace People
You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
JOHNNY CASH

Creativity Freedom Liberty Limitation Myself Way Yourself
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.
JOHNNY CASH

Children Hard Inspirational Music Myself Time
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
JOHNNY CASH

Build Energy Failure Forget Mistake Past Space Step Time Try Yourself
I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
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Believe Determination Give Up Inspirational Motivational Myself
The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
JOHNNY CASH

Burn Excitement Fire Love Ourselves Ring Yourself
When I think about country music, I think about America.
JOHNNY CASH

Country Music Myself Thinking
I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
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Believe God Myself Power Spiritual
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
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Gain Learning Mistake Myself Pain Way
I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.
JOHNNY CASH

Bitter Death Life Myself Nature Thrill
People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
JOHNNY CASH

Country Establishment Myself Normal People Wild
I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
JOHNNY CASH

Drug God Growth Myself Satisfaction Soul Try World

When I’m gone I’ll be remembered as the workin’ man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

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