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And the L said unto Cain,Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said,What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

—Bible (Old Testament)

At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Sois mon fre'  re, ou je te tue. Be my brother, or I kill you.

—Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move., the caption beneath it ran.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Brother can you spare a dime?

—Harburg, E(dgar) Y(ip)

Mon fre'  re, en une nuit, avait invente¤   le cine¤  matographe. My brother, in one night, had invented the cinema.

—Lumie'  re, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas

I am glad you have asked me. I should like you to convey when you are acting it that the man you portray has a brother in Shropshire who drinks port. Barth

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

  Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

—Daniel, Samuel

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death.

—Fo, Dario

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes. But I laugh And eat well, And grow strong.

—Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston

Eat-well is drink-well's brother.

—Fuller,Thomas

Have wenot all onefather, hath not one God createdus? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

—Bible (Old Testament)

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Speakingofthe coldness ofoneparticularday, a genuine brother Jonathan remarked, with charming simplicity, that it was thirtydegrees below zero that morning, and it would have been much colder if the thermometer had been longer.

—Moodie, Susanna ne¤  e Strickland

Then came Peter to him, and said,Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,Until seven times: but,Until seventy times seven.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

And therefore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon oother.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

   There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

—Borrow, George Henry

Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.

—Burns, Robert

If a mansay,I love God, and hatethhis brother, heisa liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

—Bible (NewTestament)

One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

   And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

—Bible (NewTestament)

For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

—Uttley, Alison

Hypocrite lecteur,ömon semblable,ömon fre'  re! Hypocrite readerömy fellow manömy brother! See Eliot 306:55.

—Baudelaire, Charles

Je n'ai plus ni pe'  re, ni me'  re, Ni s½ur, ni fre'  re Sinon Dieu seul auquel j'espe'  re. I no longer have a father, nor a mother, Nor a sister, nor a brother. I only have God to trust in. 549

—Marguerite d'Angoule"  me

Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.

—Burns, Robert

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

—Bible (NewTestament)

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

—Bible (Old Testament)

But I say unto you,That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say,Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

—Bible (NewTestament)

To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his younger brother popped on to histhrone and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactlyare you behaving in this extraordinary manner.

—Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler