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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.

~ William Morris

William Morris Dialectic Evolution Hope Optimism Struggle

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

~ William Morris

William Morris Books Reading

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

~ William Morris

William Morris Philosophy Of Life

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

~ William Morris

William Morris Earth Landscape Nature Quotes

OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented hazeThat hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold,Where the wind-bitten ancient elms infoldGrey church, long barn, orchard, and red-roofed stead,Wrought in dead days for men a long while dead.Come down, O love; may not our hands still meet,Since still we live today, forgetting June,Forgetting May, deeming October sweet? - - Oh, hearken! hearken! through the afternoonThe grey tower sings a strange old tinkling tune!Sweet, sweet, and sad, the toiling year's last breath,To satiate of life, to strive with death.And we too -will it not be soft and kind,That rest from life, from patience, and from pain,That rest from bliss we know not when we find,That rest from love which ne'er the end can gain?- Hark! how the tune swells, that erewhile did wane!Look up, love! -Ah! cling close, and never move!How can I have enough of life and love?

~ William Morris

William Morris Aging Bliss Life Love October

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

~ William Morris

William Morris Life Jewels Strand

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris

William Morris Life Daily Details

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

~ William Morris

William Morris Art People Kings

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

~ William Morris

William Morris Words Me Important

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

William Morris Work Man Memory

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

~ William Morris

William Morris Education Freedom Want

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

~ William Morris

William Morris Love Hate You

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

~ William Morris

William Morris Life Competition Long

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

~ William Morris

William Morris Beautiful Believe Know

No man is good enough to be another's master.

~ William Morris

William Morris Good Man Master

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

~ William Morris

William Morris Past Living Will
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