 The greatest obstacle to being heroic • is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool ; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt ; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.  Life's Problems. Essays, Moral, Social and Psychological - Stran 161avtor: Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1857 - 277 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1852 - 536 strani
...harmonies of nature into articulate meanings. " The greatest obstacle," says Nathaniel Hawthorne, " to being heroic, is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool." Yet in face of this, it was in the heart of a pitiless snow-storm that the bachelorpoet... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 - 310 strani
...life ! Possibly it would hardly look so, now; it is enough if it looked so then. The greatest obstacle to being heroic • is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool ; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt ; and the profoundest wisdom, to know... | |
 | 1852 - 516 strani
...harmonies of nature into articulate meanings. " The greatest obstacle," says Nathaniel Hawthorne, " to being heroic, is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool." Yet in face of this, it was in the heart of a pitiless snow-storm that the bachelorpoet... | |
 | 1870 - 778 strani
...poetry, and account-books. Here is a page of my note-book written at that time. " The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool. The truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 strani
...ceremonies, when the burdens imposed upon their membership shall have been relieved. " The greatest obstacle to being heroic, is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool ; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt ; and the profoundest wisdom, to know... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 624 strani
...! Possibly, it would hardly look so, now; it is enough if it looked so then. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; (he truest heroism is, to resist the doubt j and the profoundest wisdom to know... | |
 | 1875 - 444 strani
...turning into here; the future is ever becoming now. '.:,.:". AetnsHawthorne said: " The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool. The truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when... | |
 | Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 strani
...Tennyson. of thought or feeling, are those of which the fructification is slow. The greatest obstacle to being heroic, is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool. The truest heroism is to resist the doubt. The profoundest wisdom, to know when... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 strani
...of life and motives of conduct. This seems to be a characteristic attitude: 'The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom to know when... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 624 strani
...! Possibly, it would hardly look so, now ; it is enough if it looked so then. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom to know when... | |
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