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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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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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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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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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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 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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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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 true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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Artists cannot help themselves they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
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