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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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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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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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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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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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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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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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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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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There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.
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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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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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