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Letter "W" » William Morris Quotes
«Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful»
«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 useful or believe to be beautiful.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Everything is Beautiful, Everything or Nothing, Golden Rule, houses
«Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
fellowship, Fellowship of, hell on earth, The Fellowship of
«The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.»
«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.»
«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; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
decent, houses, longed-for, longed, pleasurable, production, self respect, societies
«Give me love and work - these two only»
«When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.»
«History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.»
«It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last»
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