A Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. — © Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
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.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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