The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
タグ: evil, lie, experience, good

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Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
タグ: yesterday, past, tomorrow, today
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
タグ: seldom, translation, true, art
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
タグ: own, who, born, man
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
タグ: old, old-age, age, heart
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
タグ: certainly, also, unconventional, conservatism, values
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