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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.
- William Morris
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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.
- William Morris
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#Life
#My Life
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
- William Morris
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#Life
#Nothing
#Throwing
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
- William Morris
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#Hate
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#Real
Give me love and work - these two only.
- William Morris
#Give Me
#Love
#Me
#Two
#Work
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
- William Morris
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#Jewels
#Life
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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.
- William Morris
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#Great
#Life
#Revolution
#Society
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
- William Morris
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#Life Goes On
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#Long
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
- William Morris
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
- William Morris
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#Important
#Last
#Me
#Words
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
- William Morris
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#Labour
#Life
#Reward
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
- William Morris
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#Dead
#Future
#Living
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
- William Morris
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#History
#Kings
#People
#Remembered
No man is good enough to be another's master.
- William Morris
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#Freedom
#Good
#Man
#Master
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
- William Morris
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#Education
#Freedom
#More
#Want
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
- William Morris
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#Details
#Happiness
#Life
#True
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris
#Beautiful
#Believe
#Home
#Know
#Nothing
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