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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

William Morris

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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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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
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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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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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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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