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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
Grief
Joy
Goes
Literature
Comes

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God'll send the bill to you.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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