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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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