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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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.
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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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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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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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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
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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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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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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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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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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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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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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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Speak but one word to me.
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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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