Between the anvil and the hammer.


German Proverb

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Between the anvil and the hammer.
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a hammer and an anvil.
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The anvil lasts longer than the hammer
PROVERB
The anvil never takes advice from the hammer.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
PROVERB
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
GERMAN PROVERB
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
PROVERB
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
EMILY DICKINSON
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike
ARABIAN PROVERB
If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
TURKISH PROVERB
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer
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For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
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...
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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The anvil fears no blows
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Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).
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A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
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Charity sees the need not the cause.
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
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A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day
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Loquacity and lying are cousins.
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No answer is also an answer.
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Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
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He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
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Envy eats nothing but its own heart
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He who borrows sells his freedom.
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He who borrows sells his freedom
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Buying is cheaper than asking.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Charity sees the need, not the cause.
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He who teaches children learns more than they do
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Never give advice unless asked.
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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
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It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.
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If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
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He who teaches children learns more than they do.
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God gives, but man must open his hand.
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
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Anger without power is folly.
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
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To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing
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What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse
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When the fox preaches, look to your geese
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One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
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An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind
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Politeness is what warmth is to wax
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Ambition and fleas both jump high
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A baptized Jew is a circumcised Christian
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Happy is the one who forgets that which cannot be changed
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You can do anything with children if only you play with them
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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
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An old man loved is a winter with flowers
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Not every ass has long ears
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Where there are no swamps there are no frogs
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The stomach is easier filled than the eye
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The only real equality is in the cemetery
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Forever is a long bargain.
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To bury grief plant a seed.
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No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
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Who begins too much accomplished little.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
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A teacher is better than two books
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If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark
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Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
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He who likes cherries soon learns to climb
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If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
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Except for the night, we could never know the stars
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Silence is a fence around wisdom
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The wise man has long ears and a short tongue
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Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others
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When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
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If the old dog barks, he gives counsel
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A bad penny always comes back
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Many look with one eye at what they give, but with seven at what they receive
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He who blackens others does not whiten himself
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There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so
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Empty heads are very fond of long titles
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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
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Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
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God's mill goes slowly but grinds fine
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Better an honest enemy than a false friend
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Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog
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Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy
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The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
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Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound
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Coffee and love are best when they are hot
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There is no better gambling than not to gamble
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.
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Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
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He who teaches a boy teaches three: a youth, a young man, and an old man
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The more laws the less justice
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A good name is a second inheritance
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There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale
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Always something new, seldom something good.
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Blind zeal can only do harm
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Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
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Long is not forever
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Never give advice unasked
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Learned fools exceed all fools
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Who rides slow, must saddle betimes
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The greatest step is out the door.
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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