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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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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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William M. Morris
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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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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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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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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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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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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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
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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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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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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
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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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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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