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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
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William M. Morris
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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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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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Late February days and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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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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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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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 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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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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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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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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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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