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Let all things be done decently and in order.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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?
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. IV)
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To make the plough go before the horse.
Author: James I of England
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.
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.]
Author: Francois Rabelais
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: Thomas Tusser
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.
Author: Will Durant
Source: None
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: None
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
Author: William Lyon Phelps
Source: None
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
Author: Charles Fillmore
Source: None
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Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson
Source: None
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Author: Steve Martin
Source: None
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Source: None
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
Source: None
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