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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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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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Speak but one word to me.
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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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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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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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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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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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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Don't think too much of style.
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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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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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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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Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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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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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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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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