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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
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I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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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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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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