English - Designer | March 24, 1834 - October 3, 1896
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
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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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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.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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.
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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.
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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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To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
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We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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