Quotes of Urn - somelinesforyou

“ If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out. ”

- Robert Pollok

“ The earth is rocking, the skies are riven - Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. ”

- Robert Williams Buchanan

“ One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it. ”

- Anthony Trollope
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