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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Seems
Neath
Earth
Shrunken
Gray
Height
Silent
Wind
Left
Night
Unmeasured

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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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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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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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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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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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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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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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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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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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