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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Education
Freedom
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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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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It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
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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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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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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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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
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