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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give--though it might seem bold--
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the read more
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the
vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him
as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put read more
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
