"The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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438 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a…
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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,…
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
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More Cain Quotes
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Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You…
— Herman Cain
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...there's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse...
— Unknown Author
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
— Abraham Cowley
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a…
— Raymond Chandler
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How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!
— Herman Cain
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as…
— William Shakespeare
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts,…
— John Donne
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Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
— Phillis Wheatley
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
— Edward Dahlberg
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The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by…
— James B. Weaver
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The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be…
— Pope Innocent III
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was…
— Warren Jeffs
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