#extremity

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

#call #case #cast #civilization #could

Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ↗

— John Flavel

#god #man #opportunity

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart

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

#disability #extremity #getting #interesting #kind

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

#before #come #extremity #gentle #half

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

#black #except #extremity #flight #geese

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. ↗

— Moliere

#flees #leads #perfect #reason #sobriety

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

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends

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

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. ↗

— Janet Frame

#demands #extremity #law #often #very