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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
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
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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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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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Don't think too much of style.
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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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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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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper or you may cover them with mosaic or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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