Crucible Quotes

• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Pigs

  Journal, Feb. 1855

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• We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Crazy, Writing

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.339, Penguin

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• Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

  Arthur Miller

  Beer, Justice, Freeze

  Arthur Miller (1996). “The Crucible: Revised Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

  John Proctor

  Names, Soul, Given

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• I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Hysteria, Judging, Tongue

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

  Abigail Williams

  Sweet, Jesus, Book

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• Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Dust, Names

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.90, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Black

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

  Arthur Miller

  Principles, May, Life Is

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.106, Heinemann

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• A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  Arthur Miller

  Running, Children, Romance

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Change, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.

  Abigail Williams

  Night, Witch Trials, Black

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• Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

  Arthur Miller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Heaven

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.67, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

  Elizabeth Proctor

  Wife, Needs, Lechery

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• Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Men, World

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• When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Hurt, Pain, Fire

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• I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

  Samuel Johnson

  Body, Limits, Aptitude

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• New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

  Ford Madox Ford

  New York, Easy, Enough

  Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”

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• I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!

  John Proctor

  Dog, Heart, Thinking

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• The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

  Arthur Miller

  Devil, Stones, Mark

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.315, Penguin

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• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Molecules

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• There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

  Arthur Miller

  Atheism, Church, These Days

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.23, Heinemann

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Criticism, Gold

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• He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

  Arthur Miller

  Goodness

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.91, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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