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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

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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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Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
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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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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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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Speak but one word to me.
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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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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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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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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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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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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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.
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