 Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must come out before we can measure them.  Diamond Dust - Page 176by Eliza Cook - 1865 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...organized day-dream with a skin on it.' Genius itself is no genius if it stay indoors. ' Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the book must... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 pages
...b« read. Persons have no right to do as they please unless they please to do right Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Indolence is the rust of the mind and the inlet of every vice. Integrity, however rough, is better... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...lecturer has some pertinent and forcible illustrations of this sentiment, as follows: "Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. There may be epics in men's brains just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the book must... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - 1854 - 252 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a commonsense author upon this subject, " Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 324 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a commonsense author upon this subject, " Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 270 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a commonsense author upon this subject, " Genius, unexerted, is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." There may be epies in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the bark must... | |
 | 1855 - 228 pages
...per annum, which would be about $3,287 a day, $137 an hour, and $2 26 a minute. GENIUS, unexerted. is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. ENIGMAS. — What English word of one syllable, by cutting off its first letter, becomes a Latin word... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...capacity undeveloped ", is only " an organised day-dream with a skin on it. * * Genius undeveloped is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. There may be epics in men's brains, just as there are oaks in acorns, but the tree and the book must... | |
 | 1857 - 1266 pages
...undeveloped," says Emerson, " is only an organised clay dream, with a skin on it." "Genius uncxerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." This habit of observation and attention, while it has led to some of the noblest of man's discoveries,... | |
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