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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