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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Poor
Half
Shutters
Wish
Wishes
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Heart
Indeed
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Imagination
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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