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Extremity is the trier of spirits. -- William Shakespeare
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. -- William Shakespeare
Man's extremity is God's opportunity. -- John Flavel
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. -- Janet Frame
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. -- Moliere
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. -- Matthew Henry
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. -- Mark Haddon
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity. -- Mark Leyner
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness. -- Elizabeth George
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. -- Tom Hollander
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often. -- William Cavendish
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires. -- Clive Sinclair
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! -- Cesare Beccaria
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. -- Meriwether Lewis
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. -- Soren Kierkegaard
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. -- Thomas Arnold
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly. -- Meg Rosoff
There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control. -- Natalie Dormer
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. -- Whittaker Chambers
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul. -- Zainab Salbi
I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you. -- Lucy Walker
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection. -- Saint Ambrose
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. -- Aeschylus
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. -- Laozi
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven. -- Walter Scott
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. -- Moliere
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. -- Marie Antoinette
Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation. -- Zainab Salbi
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. -- Juvenal
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life -- Diana Nyad
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. -- Blaise Pascal
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. -- Francois Fenelon
We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable. -- Chiang Kai-shek
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease. -- Boonaa Mohammed
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- -- C. S. Lewis
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. -- H. Beam Piper
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. -- Li-Young Lee
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy -- John Flavel
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms... -- Andrew Jackson
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I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. -- Nick Hornby
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity! -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction -- William James

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