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. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
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. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
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. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
'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 British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world? William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Swerve to the left, son Roger, he said, / When you catch his eyes through the helmet-slit, / Swerve to the left, then out at his head, / And the Lord God give you the joy of it! William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
I know a little garden close / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might / From dewy dawn to dewy night. / And have one with me wandering. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe, A tale of folly and of wasted life, Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife, Ending, where all things end, in death at last. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will -- what matters it? William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. . . . William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow, And seek for men's love in the short days of life. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood at the head, / Over his feet lay the bride. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0