 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
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles. Bufeland. UNEXERTED GENIUS. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Beecher. LITERARY DINNERS. I knew a person who occasionally gave entertainments to authors. His fancy... | |
 | 1872 - 444 pages
...curses. — Beecher. A quiet mind, like other blessings, s more easily lost than gained. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Self-consecration is not a single act or fact in the past — a definite thing to be referred back... | |
 | 1872 - 612 pages
...standing army. A QUIET mind, like other blessings, is more easily lost than gained. GESICS uncxertcd is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest "f oaks. WHEN a man has no design but to speak the truth he may say a great •leal in a very narrow... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1875 - 426 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... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 pages
...but never exerts it, is virtually to say that he has it not. " Genius unexerted," declares Emerson, " is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." How wonderful soever may be the gifts attributed to a man, he will in vain be expected to do one wonderful... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a common-sense 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 book must... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a common sense 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... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 pages
...doing, whatever hindrances and difficulties may stand in the way. "Genius unexerted," says Emerson, " 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... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...active perseverance than upon genius. Says a common-sense 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 book must... | |
 | 1888 - 520 pages
...diaphragm there appears to be but one woConcerning genius Ralph Waldo Emerson said : 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... | |
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