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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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Journalist
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Massachusetts
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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