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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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Artists cannot help themselves they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
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Speak but one word to me.
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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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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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Don't think too much of style.
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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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From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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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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