Latitude And Longitude Quotes

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

  Charles Lamb

  Truth, Tales, Absolutes

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

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Sea, Lines, Conjugal

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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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• Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Distance, Discovery, Use

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• Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Twelve, Widows, Handsome

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• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

  Ken Jennings

  Simple, Space, Gps

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• The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Race, Brotherhood, Mind

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