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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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
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Literature
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Grief
Joy

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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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