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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Change

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Nature

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Passion

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Security

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Ask

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Conflict