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Give me love and work - these two only.

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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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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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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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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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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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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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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 wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
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There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
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I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Speak but one word to me.
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