"Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them." — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in… — Hugo Chavez
• Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by… — Paul of the Cross
• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life… — Seneca the Younger
• A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of… — Brice Marden
• The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and… — Ray Stedman
• Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good. — George Herbert
• Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots. — Nicholas Culpeper
• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel,… — Robert Browning
• Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the… — Lloyd Alexander
• Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was… — Ernest Hemingway
• We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they… — Alice Morse Earle
• Reason reasons that no greats are bettered, In an earthen womb than her spirit mattered, Among crystal syllables of the… — Melchor Lim

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