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Letter "C" » crucible
«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.»
Author: Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
accommodation, accommodations, crucible, equal opportunity, refinement, social justice, The Crucible
«America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!»
Author: Israel Zangwill
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crucible, crucibles, forming, melting pot, races, The Crucible
«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.»
Author: Israel Zangwill
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crucible, crucibles, fusion, races, The Coming, The Crucible
«The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by the praise accorded him»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| Keywords:
appreciating, crucible, crucibles, diamonds, gold coin, lab, scales, The Crucible, The Lab, touchstone, touchstones, trader, weights
«A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart.»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Limits,
Success,
Wit
| Keywords:
aptitude, aptitudes, boundaries, crucible, crucibles, furnace, impressions, indissoluble, Min, The Crucible
«Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
crucible, crucibles, The Crucible, weigh
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