A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Want, the mistress of invention.

Want, the mistress of invention.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

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.

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.

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.

We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
But when did woman ever yet invent?"

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.]