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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
Tags: struggle, optimism, hope, evolution, dialectic

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
— William Morris
Tags: kings, people, history, art
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
— William Morris
Tags: hate, you, art, love
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
Tags: right, see, things, power
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
— William Morris
Tags: enough, reward, life
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
— William Morris
Tags: jewels, strung, strand, life, inspirational
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