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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. "
Diamond Dust - Página 176
por Eliza Cook - 1865 - 192 páginas
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 páginas
...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...
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The Schoolmate, Volume 4

A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 páginas
...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...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 12

1852 - 596 páginas
...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...
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Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes: Relating to the Formation of ...

George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - 1854 - 252 páginas
...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...
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Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes: Relating to the Formation of ...

George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 324 páginas
...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...
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Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes: Relating to the Formation of ...

George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 270 páginas
...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...
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Student and Family Miscellany, Volume 10

1855 - 228 páginas
...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...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

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...
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The English Journal of Education, Volumes 11-13

1857 - 1266 páginas
...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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