"It is better to be the hammer than…" — Emily Dickinson
"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
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Emily Dickinson
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site.
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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More Anvil Quotes
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one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
— Aeschylus
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style…
— Steve Rushin
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into…
— Anne Bradstreet
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
— Emile Zola
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We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
— Charles Schumer
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
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As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight…
— Madeleine Sophie Barat
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an…
— J. G. Holland
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