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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris
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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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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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Late February days and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
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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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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
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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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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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