"Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order."

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Hugh Blair

#Order Quotes #Temper Quotes

“We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.”

Source : Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”
“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.”
“Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.”
“He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.”
“Donâ€™t see the mind for more than it is, but donâ€™t misread it for all that it can be.”
“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793), as quoted in David William Bates "Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France" (p. 169), 2002.
“The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.”

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