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“Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.”
Eliphas Levi Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”
Thomas Mann Quotes |
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Flaubert Quotes |
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“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos”
Will Durant Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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“Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.”
Anna Branch Quotes |
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“Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.”
M.C. Escher Quotes |
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“Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Bible 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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“To make the plough go before the horse.”
James I of England Quotes Source: Letter to the Lord Keeper
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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 Quotes |
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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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