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Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God.— DE LA BRUYÈRE — The Characters or

Manners of the Present Age. Ch. XVII. Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.— COWLEY — Davideis. Bk. III. L. 205.

Extremes meet.— MERCIER — Tableaux de Paris.

(1782.) Vol. IV. Title of Ch. 348. He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.— MONTAIGNE — Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. L. 385.

Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 161.

And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 133.

Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 51.

Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 37.

Who can be patient in such extremes?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 215.