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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
Augustus William Hare
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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker for it was not on the door of heaven.
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