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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
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Shut
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Chaps
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Weaving
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Tapestry
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Epic

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Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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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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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
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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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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters 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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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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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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It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
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