"Use gentle means before you come to extremity,……" — William Cavendish

More Extremity Quotes

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• Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal
• The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of… — Marcello Malpighi
• The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad
• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity,… — Catharine Beecher
• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and… — June Jordan
• But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of… — James Madison
• When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given… — John Flavel
• PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily,… — Alexander Chee
• I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
• The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of… — C.S. Lewis
• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
• I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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