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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
 As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
 So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.  
 As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
 So error is hell, or a mischief as bad. 
To make the plough go before the horse.
To make the plough go before the horse.
 Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
 Some are and must be greater than the rest.  
 Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
 Some are and must be greater than the rest. 
A place for everything, everything in its place.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
 For the world was built in order
 Around the atoms march in tune;
  Rhyme the pipe, and read more 
 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. 
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
Let all things be done decently and in order.