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WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose. WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast... WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life. WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha... WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e... WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ... WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ... WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t... WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master. WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only. WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n... WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone. WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p... WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him. WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus... WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai... WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H... WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C... WILLIAM BARCLAY