A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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.
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.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
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.
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.
As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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.
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.
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