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"30 William Morris Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 March 1834. Died: 3 October 1896 | Textile designer | Poet | Novelist | Translator | Activist |

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

Nothing Act Throwing away Life
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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.

Past Dead Alive Future
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Understand Words Important Experience
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

History Art People Created
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The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
True Secreat Happiness Life
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Reward Labour Life Enough
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Learn Love Art Hate
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Nothing Useless Truly Beautiful
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Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...

Love Down Fingers Intertwined
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Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee

Love Clear Eyes Blind
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Let some word reach my ears and touch my heart

Word Ears Touch Heart
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I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

Think Good life Live Fools
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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.

Works Imagination Children Time
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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.

Made Man's Labour Worth
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No man is good enough to be another's master.

Man Good Enough Master
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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

Want Change Society Happy life
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

One Life's Jewels Strung
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Want Art Education Freedom
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If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.

Others See Vision Dream
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Nature ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...

Nature Man Ugliness Beauty
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Wherever nature works, there will be beauty.

Nature Works Beauty
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

Work Embodiment Dreams Form
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Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Tomorrow Cross Own Rivers
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Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Boundless Risk Pay Gain
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Free men Live Simple Pleasures
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The soul attains.

Heart Desires Soul Attains
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Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Art Man's expression Joy Labour
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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.

Going Way Help Long
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Simplicity Life Misery Foundation
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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.

Man Work Mind Soul
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William Morris Quotes & Sayings