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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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