All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which … - Richard Le Gallienne

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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Richard Le Gallienne

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Travel, Rome, Cities, Mystical, Bourne

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The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

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Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

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Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man.

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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise. "

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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Able, Greater, Man, Men, Praise

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