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“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.”

Has Beens Earth Faces Jew Curse Outcast Cain Wanderers

Author:Abba Hillel Silver

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.”

Earth Heaven Doubt Records Crime Innocent Curse No Doubt

Author:William Cowper

“When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.”

Children Enough Earth Four Privilege Kingdoms Curse Remove Quarters Adam Resurrection Receiving Kingdom Of God Posterity Priesthood Redeemed Cain

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.”

Men Earth Death Fall Voice Sleep Silence Gold Noise Beloved Curse Strife Dreary Wailing

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.”

Earth Difficult Morning Sweet Blessing Burden Curse Gray Toil Thankfulness Noon Boon Difficult Days

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?”

Needs Heart Mean Soul Earth Our Lives Written Blessing Eternity Hunger Delight Possession Curse Destination Occupation Allies Trifles Short Lived

Book:The Book of Esther

Source: The Book of Esther

“Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.”

Humans Earth Wife Human Life Curse Goods Good Wife

Author:Simonides of Ceos

“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?”

Persons Hard Use Earth Curse Eggs

Book:The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies

Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies