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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• 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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• 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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• I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.

  Abigail Williams

  Helping, God Help Me, Fingers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

  Elizabeth Proctor

  Wife, Needs, Lechery

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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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• Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

  Arthur Miller

  Naked, Providence, Great Change

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

  John Proctor

  Husband, Judging, Looks

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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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• Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

  Israel Zangwill

  Real, Race, America

  Israel Zangwill, Edna Nahshon (2006). “From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays : Three Playscripts”, p.288, Wayne State University Press

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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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• 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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• America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

  Israel Zangwill

  Race, Europe, America

  The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1

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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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