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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1147
AUTHOR:Reginald Heber (1783–1826)
QUOTATION:What tho’ the spicy breezes
Blow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile?
ATTRIBUTION:REGINALD HEBER, “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains” (hymn), From Greenland’s Icy Mountains, p. 23 (1884).
SUBJECTS:Man
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia
 
 
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