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Anvil Quotes

Life's a forge -Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening toyou. But stand proudly to it. Metal'sworthless till it is shaped andtempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil. Lloyd Alexander
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders. Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. Carl Sandburg
Let me twine. Mine arms about that body, where against. My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip. The anvil of my sword, and do contest. As hotly and as nobly with thy love. As ever in ambitious strength I did. Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man. Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart. Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Bestride my... William Shakespeare
What the hammer? What the Chains? In what furnace was thy brain? Where the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp? William Blake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or..."
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Edwin Markham quote: "For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you..."
For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear--When you are the hammer, strike. Edwin Markham
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil."
Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
George Orwell quote: "In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer..."
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other..."
It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about. George Orwell
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants. Charles Spurgeon
Edwin Markham quote: "For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you..."
For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike. Edwin Markham
Pindar quote: "Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil."
Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil. Pindar
Erwin Rommel quote: "I would rather be the hammer than the anvil"
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil Erwin Rommel
Charles R. Swindoll quote: "A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on..."
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Charles R. Swindoll
Emily Dickinson quote: "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Emily Dickinson

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