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To make the plough go before the horse.
To make the plough go before the horse.
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.
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on read more
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, read more
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.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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.
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in read more
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.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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.