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  • The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

    Hate   Ego   Enemy  
  • In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

    Real   Hammers   Anvils  
    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

    Character   Golf   Men  
  • You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

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  • ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

    Light   Poetry   Noon  
  • There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

    Giving   Anvils   Nudge  
  • 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 (1920). “Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse”
  • Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

  • Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

    Lying   Iron   Hammers  
  • And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

    Poetry   Anvils   Ill  
  • 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.

  • I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

    Life   Jobs   Heart  
    Dinaw Mengestu (2014). “All Our Names”, p.17, Knopf
  • 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 to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

    Luck   Hammers   Anvils  
  • 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.

  • I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

    Ideas   Waiting   Anvils  
  • You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

    Success   War   Suffering  
  • The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

    War   Church   Hammers  
  • The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

    Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.77, Whitaker House
  • Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

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

    Fate   Justice   Doe  
  • 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.

  • Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

    Mean   Night   Turkeys  
    Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin
  • In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203
  • Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

    Work   Heart   Twenties  
  • When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

    Horse   Prayer   Wall  
    "Poems and Prose".
  • You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

  • It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

    Hammers   Anvils  
  • The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

    New York   Book   Fall  
  • Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

    Peace   Ubuntu   Light  
  • What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.

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