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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”
 
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Feb 27, 1807
 
Date of Death:   Mar 24,  1882
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
 
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