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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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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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Speak but one word to me.
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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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 you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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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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From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
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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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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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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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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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