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“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.” quote by Pindar — Download Open image

“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.”

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It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a…

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father…

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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil…

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Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

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Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no…

Robertson Davies

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: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the…

William Shakespeare

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt…

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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

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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…

Paramahansa Yogananda

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed,…

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