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No man is good enough to be another's master.

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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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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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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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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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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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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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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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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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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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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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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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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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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