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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only read more
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her read more
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act read more
Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
