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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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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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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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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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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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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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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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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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