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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
Chemical
Chemicals
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Analysis
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Everything
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Even
Deity
Deities
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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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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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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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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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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