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If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

John Ruskin

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

Lucan

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Thomas Gray

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

Isaac McLellan

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.

Robert Pollok

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

George Darley

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Friedrich Schiller

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

William Shakespeare

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

J. D. McClatchy

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Horace

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

Horace

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

Robert Browning

Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Thomas Gray

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Henry Vaughan

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