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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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