 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 páginas
...only an ' 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... | |
 | 1852 - 596 páginas
...themselves. A modern 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... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 páginas
...clear enough to 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... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - 1854 - 252 páginas
...depends upon an 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 páginas
...depends upon an 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 páginas
...York, is $1,200,000 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... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 324 páginas
...depends upon an 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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner, Elbridge Gerry Brooks, Abel Charles Thomas, Alonzo Amos Miner - 1858 - 454 páginas
...and will in coming ages delight the world. And thus with each and all. Well has it been said that, " 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... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 páginas
...something between a thought and a thing. HESITATION is often the prudery of design. GENIUS, when idle, is no more genius, than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. As many are prepared for a sudden death as for a sudden success. "On that mine enemy would write a... | |
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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. 
