ORDER

Related Subjects: Anarchy, Chaos, Discipline, Government, Habit, Logic, Method, Plan, Police, Reason, System

1. Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over oneself; order is power.—AMIEL, Journal
   

2. Let all things be done decently and in order.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 14:40
   

3. Order is a lovely thing; . . . .
   It has a meek and lowly grace,
   Quiet as a nun's face.—ANNA H. BRANCH, The Monk in the Kitchen
   

4. Good order is the foundation of all good things.—BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
   

5. For the world was built in order
   And the atoms march in tune.—EMERSON, Monadnock
   

6. Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject—the actual enemy is the unknown.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
   

7. Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
   Stood rul'd, stood vast infinitude confin'd;
   Till at his second bidding darkness fled,
   Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. Order is Heav'n's first law.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

9. All is soon ready in an orderly house.—Proverb
   

10. Order gave each thing view.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

11. 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.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

12. Order governs the world.—SWIFT, Letters
    

13. Large elements in order brought,
    And tracts of calm from tempest made,
    And world-wide fluctuation sway'd,
    In vassal tides that follow'd thought.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam