Best Quotes by William Morris (Top 10)
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
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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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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris
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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.
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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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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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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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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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More William Morris Quotes
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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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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.
William Morris