| New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 - 312 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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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