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- One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ...… — John Ruskin
- Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace
- I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial… — Lynn Flewelling
- Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and… — William Cowper
- Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one… — Unknown Author
- The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner
- Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. — Thomas Gray
- As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, —… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy
- Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all… — Horace
- Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller