Latitude Quotes

• The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Duty, Vocation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• They say your attitude determines your latitude.

  Kanye West

  Attitude, Determine

  Song: Latitude

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• When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

  Ella Maillart

  Heart, Literature, Language

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• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Moving, Light, Race

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• The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Pride, Men

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.232, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Wall, Adventure, East

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fashion, Writing, Romance

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, preface.

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb

  Truth, Latitude And Longitude, Tales

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181

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• Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Ego, Promise

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

  Lee R. Raymond

  People, Choices, Dimensions

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Southern, Maintenance

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• This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Giving, Underestimate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

  Susie Orbach

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

  "Are mothers harder on their daughters - and if so, why?" by Jenny Colgan, Luisa Dillner, Anne Karpf, Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Forever, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.891, Delphi Classics

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• There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Rights, Arrogance

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.723, eKitap Projesi

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• Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Ideas, People, Taste

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.114, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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  It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Running, Attitude, Laughing

  Song: Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, 1977

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• No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Lying, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, One Liner

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• No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

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• The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Granted

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Home, Heart, Perspective

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Giving, Records

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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