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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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
Massachusetts
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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