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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.

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

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

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.

We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!

Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Golf puts a man’s character on the anvil and his richest qualities – patience, poise, restraint – to the flame.

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

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people’s virtues.

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.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

As great Pythagoras of yore,Standing beside the blacksmith’s door,And hearing the hammers, as they smoteThe anvils with a different note,Stole from the varying tones, that hungVibrant on every iron tongue,The secret of the sounding wire.And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

Thus at the flaming forge of lifeOur fortunes must be wrought;Thus on its sounding anvil shapedEach burning deed and thought!

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

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.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

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

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

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.

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.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer’s character.

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