“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.”
“For all your years prepare,And meet them ever alike;When you are the anvil, bear--When you are the hammer, strike.”
“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.”
“You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.”
“Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.”
“Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.”