“And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, 'Where is Abel your brother?' And he said, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?' And He said, 'What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.' Genesis 4:9-11”
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“Roses grow where a teacher hits.”
Turkish Proverb
“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. . . .”
William Cullen Bryant
“The song of the rose is heard with the nose.”
Rain Bojangles
“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?”
Edward Fitzgerald
“The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,/ These remain.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.”
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