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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.
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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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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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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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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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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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