EXTREMES
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook.
Avoid extremes.
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example
than the haughtiness of humility.
Extremes are faulty and proceed from men:
compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
La Bruyère—The Characters or Manners
of the Present Age. Ch. XVII.
Extremes meet.
Mercier—Tableaux de Paris. Vol. IV. Title
of Ch. 348.
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| text = And feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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| work = Paradise Lost. II. 599.
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| text = He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met 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.
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| text = Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Criticism. L. 385.
| seealso = (See also Cleobulus)
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| text = <poem>Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.
Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco.
No one tries extreme remedies at first.
Seneca—Agamemnon. 153.
Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 51.
Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
But always resolute in most extremes.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 37.
Who can be patient in such extremes?
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 215.
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.
Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 133.
O brother, speak with possibilities,
And do not break into these deep extremes.
Titus Andronicus. Act III. Sc. 1.
EYES
In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,
A mystical forewarning.
T. B. AldrichA gray eye is a sly eye,
Arid roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,—
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.
W. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry.
Schaffy on Eyes.
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Drawing Room.
Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = The Loyal Subject.
| seealso = (See also Donne, Herrick, Sidney)
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| text = <poem>The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
F. W. BouRDrLLON—Light.
| seealso = (See also Sylvester, also Bourdillon under Night)
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| text = <poem>Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies.
E. B. Browning—Hector in the Garden.
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen.
Their lashes are the herbs that look
On their young figures in the brook.
Bryant—Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids.
The learned compute that seven hundred and
seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish
the tints of a violet.
Bulwer-Lytton—What Will He Do With Itt
Bk.VIII. Ch. n.
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole.
