It is one thing to purloin finely-tempered steel, and another to
take a pound of literary old iron, and convert it in the furnace
of one's own mind into a hundred watchsprings, worth each a thousand
times as much as the iron. When genius borrows, it borrows grandly,
giving to the borrowed matter, a life and beauty it lacked before.
take a pound of literary old iron, and convert it in the furnace
of one's own mind into a hundred watchsprings, worth each a thousand
times as much as the iron. When genius borrows, it borrows grandly,
giving to the borrowed matter, a life and beauty it lacked before.
Related:
- Platitude:
a dull old saw that everyone borrows but no one sharpens... - When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets
another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844... - Talent borrows, but genius steals.
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Arthur C.... - Will of iron,
whim of... - A rope lying over the top of a fence is the same length on each side.
It weighs one third of a pound per foot. On one end... - Support British steel -
smelt the Iron Lady... - Pictures worth a thousand words take ten thousand times
as long to draw... - I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres
and planets.
Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth... - One peek is worth a thousand
finesses...
