Top Extremity Quotes
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Janet Frame
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
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
John Flavel
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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 
Meriwether Lewis 
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Thomas Arnold All Extremity Quotes
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Janet Frame 
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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
55% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry
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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
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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
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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
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