A Quote by J. G. Holland

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — © J. G. Holland
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
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.
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 this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or 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.
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
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