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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Men
Morality
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Crime
Cold
Punishing
Differences
Crimes
Belief
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Religion
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Faith
Diversity
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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