Anvils Quotes - Page 2

• A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

  Saint Dominic

  Passion, Men, Catholic

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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

  Tablets, Ministry, Students

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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

  Life, Burning, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.37

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• Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Firmness, Stand Firm, Beaten

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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

  Hardship, Taught, Moments

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• The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

  Alfred Nobel

  Father, War, Hammers

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

  Pindar

  Peace, Ubuntu, Light

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• 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.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Work, Heart, Twenties

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• 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.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Luck, Hammers, Faces

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• As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

  Julia Ward Howe

  War, Home, Mean

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Blow, Criticism

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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

  Tattoo, Baseball, Hands

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.400, Penguin

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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

  Fate, Winning, Suffering

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• Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

  Isaac Newton

  Thinking, Apples, Wonder

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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

  Weed, Health, Doctors

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• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Winning, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.

  Berl Katznelson

  Heart, Hands, Land

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

  Horace

  Poetry, Ill, Polished

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• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Doe, Hammers

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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

  Inspirational, Anxiety, Survival

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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

  Hockey, Nhl, Style

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• Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Queens, Brain

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.200

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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

  Character, Golf, Men

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• As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

  Madeleine Sophie Barat

  Fire, Iron, Soul

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• Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Death, Spiritual

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.473, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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