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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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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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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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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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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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Speak but one word to me.
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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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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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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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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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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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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 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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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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