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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

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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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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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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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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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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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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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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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