Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
Eliphas Levi
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
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The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
Sun Tzu
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Flaubert
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Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.
James Madison
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Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
Anna Branch
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Let all things be done decently and in order.
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Quotes , Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIV, v. 40)
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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus
saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
and not live.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. XXXVIII, v. 1)
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to
put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and
to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts
right.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. XXXVIII, v. 1)
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For the world was built in order
Around the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Monadnock (st. 12)
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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the
eternal fitness of things?
Henry Fielding
Quotes , Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. IV)
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second bidding darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 710)
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 49)
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where tho' all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Windsor Forest (l. 13)
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]
Francois Rabelais
Quotes , Source: Gargantua (ch. XI)
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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office, and custom, in all line of order.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at I, iii)
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Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent, with broom, before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at V, i)
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As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
Thomas Tusser
Quotes , Source: Points of Huswifery--Huswifery Admonitions (XII, p. 251)
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
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