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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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 has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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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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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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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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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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...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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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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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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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 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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