 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 oldal
...table by jesters 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 oldal
...call them 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 oldal
...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 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... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 oldal
...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 oldal
...More depends upon 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 oldal
...depends upon an 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 oldal
...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 oldal
...More depends upon 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 oldal
...falsehood, being built on the sand, if you proceed to examine its foundation, you cause its fall." 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 most... | |
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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. 
