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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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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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