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Letter "W" » well-ordered
«Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order»
Author: Alan Brewer
| About:
Newspapers,
Poetry
| Keywords:
any old, journalese, prose, well-ordered
«Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.»
Author: Alphonso X 'the Wise'
| About:
Advice,
Creation,
Funny,
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
hints, ordering, orderings, well-ordered
«Poetry: the best words in the best order»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
in good order, order, poetry, well-ordered
«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.»
«I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Beauty,
Ugliness
| Keywords:
attribute, confused, deformities, deformity, in relation to, ordered, relation, relation to, warn, well-ordered
«I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
ordered, thrift, well-ordered
«It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
household, hunt, hunt down, purposeful, purposeless, wanderings, well-ordered
«A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Discipline,
Society
| Keywords:
comparable, counteract, equilibrium, first moment, ordered, rudder, suggestion, well-ordered
«The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Richness
| Keywords:
saving, timeliness, well-ordered
«I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
clever, definitions, homely, poets, prose, well-ordered
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