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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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William M. Morris
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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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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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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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Speak but one word to me.
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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
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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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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
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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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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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No man is good enough to be another's master.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper or you may cover them with mosaic or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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