"And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil." — Horace

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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — Henry Ward Beecher
• The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
• You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style… — Steve Rushin
• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into… — Anne Bradstreet
• One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola
• We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer
• Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper
• As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight… — Madeleine Sophie Barat
• Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
• 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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