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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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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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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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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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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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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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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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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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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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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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