When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I f...eel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which ...does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 fash...ion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel. The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The former--while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart--has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation. If he thinks fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patient ...management. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, exp...erience, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking southward, the heavens were completely overcast, the mountains capped with clouds, and the lake generally wore a dark and ...stormy appearance, but from its surface just north of Sugar Island, six or eight miles distant, there was reflected upward to us through the misty air a bright blue tinge from the distant unseen sky of another latitude beyond. They probably had a clear sky then at Greenville, the south end of the lake. Standing on a mountain in the midst of a lake, where would you look for the first sign of approaching fair weather? Not into the heavens, it seems, but into the lake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food, even in this ...latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.... Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »