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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
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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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