Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

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.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant read more

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]

Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent, with broom, before,
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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.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery read more

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.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second read more

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.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.