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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

3660 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:3660
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,—
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; 1
Another race the following spring supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise.
ATTRIBUTION:The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181.
 
Note 1.
As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow.—Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18. [back]