The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High

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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
- Horace

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet, 65 - 8 BC

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Leigh Hunt, Richard Watson Gilder, Richard Cecil, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hector MacNeil

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