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Tag Name "Anvil" (43)

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
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We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.
Daniel Gillies
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
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Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.
Ignatius of Loyola
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A hand landed on his shoulder like an anvil. “How’d you like to stay for dinner?” Butch looked up. The guy was wearing a baseball cap and had some kind of marking—was that a tattoo, on his face? “How’d you like to be dinner?” said another one, who looked like some kind of model.
J.R. Ward
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
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It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
M. M. Pallam Raju
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Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
Pindar
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Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
Anne Bradstreet
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The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.
Sacha Gervasi
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
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ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
Sonia Delaunay
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Carl Sandburg
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Steve Rushin
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The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
Charles Spurgeon
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T. D. Jakes
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Harsh counsels have no effect they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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