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"Everything exists": That is one extreme. "Everything doesn't exist": That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, The Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle
— Extremes
"Everything exists": That is one extreme. "Everything doesn't exist": That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, The Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle
Should there be danger of such an event — should he be the cause of adding a single more trouble to her existence — Why, I think, I shall be justified in going to extremes!
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
To "go to extremes" is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness.
Darling I don't know why I go to extremesToo high or too low there ain't no in-betweens.
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook.
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.
And feel by turns the bitter changeOf fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of suchWho still are pleas'd too little or too much.
Like to the time o' the year between the extremesOf hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,But always resolute in most extremes.
Who can be patient in such extremes?
And where two raging fires meet together,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
O brother, speak with possibilities,And do not break into these deep extremes.
