Quote by William Morris
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because

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

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

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Art
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. – William Morris

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Experience
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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

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Protest
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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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Imagination

In those days, it didnt take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. – Phil Harris

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Imagination

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Imagination

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that… thats part of the gift God gave us. Thats what makes life exciting. Were pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination. – Michael Moriarty

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Imagination

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Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. – Terri Guillemets, “From the Library to the Park,” 1993

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Work hard, use your common sense and dont be afraid to trust your instincts. – Fred L. Turner

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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