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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
William Morris
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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
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Late February days and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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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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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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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 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 greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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Speak but one word to me.
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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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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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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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