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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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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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Artists cannot help themselves they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
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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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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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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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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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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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Speak but one word to me.
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
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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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