Quotes with anvil

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  • Hubert Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sandburg Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
    Let me pry loose old walls.
    Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
    Prayers of Steel (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Edwin Markham 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
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Billy Casper Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities patience, poise, and restraint to the flame.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • George Orwell In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Anne Bradstreet 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.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Emily Dickinson It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    The People Will Live On (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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