In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Your Life shall sweat 'twixt anvil and hot forge,
An armorer working at the sword of grief.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
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.
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
And scarr'd the moon with splinters; here I clip
The anvil of my sword, and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy love
As ever in ambitious strength I did
Contend against thy valour.
When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
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.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories