Anvils Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anvils Excellence Hammers Masters Servant
“Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
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… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
