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“There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”
Alison Goodman“See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades... So the hard and soft iron are mingled without blending, before the blade is hammered up to its finished form and tempered, and ground to an edge that shall draw blood from the wind. So comes the pattern, like oil and water that mingle but do not mix. Yet it is the strength of the blade, for without the hard iron the blade would bend in battle, and without the soft iron it would break.”
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...”
Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God“The nail that sticks out is hammered down.”
Japanese proverb“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
Hubert H. Humphrey“The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”
Patrick Jones, Nailed“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
Charles R. Swindoll“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw“Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.”
Elizabeth Haydon, The Floating Island