Anvil Quotes

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Trials, Higher

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Living, Place

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom, Debate, Discussion

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile Zola

Daily, Style, Terrible

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus

Justice, Makes, Fate

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham

Days, Meet, Prepared

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

Country, Between, Fact

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Thomas Malory

Born, King, England

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster

Him, Devil, Heard

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
Angie Harmon

Waiting, Keep, Head

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 pleases.
Anne Bradstreet

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

Effect, Harsh, Counsels

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