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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.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Epic
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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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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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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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 reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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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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Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
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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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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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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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I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
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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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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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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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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
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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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