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Give me love and work - these two only (William Morris Quotes)
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful (William Morris Quotes)
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures (William Morris Quotes)
If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement. (William Morris Quotes)
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor (William Morris Quotes)
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain (William Morris Quotes)
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings? (William Morris Quotes)
The heart desires, the hand refrains, the Godhead fires, the soul attains (William Morris Quotes)
Earth, left silent by the wind of night, seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height (William Morris Quotes)
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age (William Morris Quotes)
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? (William Morris Quotes)
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. (William Morris Quotes)
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. (William Morris Quotes)
Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken ‘neath the gray unmeasured height (William Morris Quotes)
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. (William Morris Quotes)
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere (William Morris Quotes)
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it? (William Morris Quotes)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created (William Morris Quotes)
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art (William Morris Quotes)
No man is good enough to be another's master (William Morris Quotes)
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful (William Morris Quotes)
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung (William Morris Quotes)
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement (William Morris Quotes)
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining. (William Morris Quotes)
The reward of labor is life. Is that not enough? (William Morris Quotes)
There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon. (William Morris Quotes)
Love is enough: while ye deemed him a-sleeping, there were signs of his coming and sounds of his feet; his touch it was that would bring you to weeping, when the summer was deepest and music most sweet (William Morris Quotes)
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious (William Morris Quotes)
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making; or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers (William Morris Quotes)
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream (William Morris Quotes)