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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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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Cambridge
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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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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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