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William Morris
William Morris
English Designer
Born: Mar 24, 1834
Died: Oct 3, 1896
Art Because Good Happy Life Will
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
Happiness Life Daily Secret Details Lies Taking True Genuine Interest Happiness Lies Daily Life
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. William Morris
Work Worth Pleasant Neither Would Shall Make Doing Nor Conditions Itself Done Which Should Right Necessary
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
Future Will Past Living Alive Dead Make Which Us Helping Now
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. William Morris
Life Great Change Happy Revolution Happy Life Organic Society Mass Forces Real Want Used
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
Work Man Soul Memory Mind Will Imagination Wills Something He Feels Well Him Because Exercising Making His Exist Energies Which Working Body Help Works
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. William Morris
Me Experience Words Important Took Make Because Understand Years Often Last
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. William Morris
Degree Power Enter See Vocation Subjects Any Interest Little Them Muddle Whole Ever Right Things Set
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. William Morris
Life Good Be Happy Happy Animals Live Swimming Enjoy Sleeping Unless Running Eating Shall Like Exercise Sailing Walking Ordinary Loving Functions Riding
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. William Morris
Time Good Great Remember Old Seven Books Bad Indifferent Had Read Years Very Taught Being Many By The Time

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