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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Life
Humor
Tidy
Beauty
Clutter
Happiness
Simplify
Simple
Organize
House
Useful
Beautiful
Simplicity
Nothing
Tiny
Minimalist
Believe
Design
Minimalism
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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