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William Morris
Simplicity of life,...
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and...
Memory and imagination...
Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages...
Not on one...
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
A man at...
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the...
If you cannot...
If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the...
Have nothing in...
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Dreamer of dreams,...
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
Let it suffice me...
Art is man's...
Art is man's expression of his joy in labour.
Source: Art under Plutocracy, 1883;...
This land is...
This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into...
So long as...
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of...
Wind, wind! thou...
Wind, wind! thou art sad, art thou kind?
Wind, wind, unhappy! thou art blind,
Yet still thou wanderest the...
If you want...
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be...
Pray but one...
Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.
Source: Summer Dawn
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Boundless risk must...
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Source: Progressive Farmer
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So I say,...
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject...