In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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