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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Carried
Analysis
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Everything
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Even
Deity
Deities
Chemical
Chemicals
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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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 question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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