William Morris Quotes
William Morris was a renowned artist, craftsman, and writer during the late 1800s. He was one of the key influencer of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which sought to revive traditional craftsmanship techniques. Morris’ work is celebrated for its beauty and simplicity, and his quotes are just as inspiring. Here are some of the best quotes from William Morris that will uplift and inspire you.
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It is right and necessary that all 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.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
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Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
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I don’t remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act – that is throwing away one’s life.
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I can’t enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
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Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.
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I don’t remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
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To do nothing but grumble and not to act – that is throwing away one’s life.
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I can’t enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
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Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.
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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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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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How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
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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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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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How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
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No man is good enough to be another’s master.
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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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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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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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