 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.  The Blithedale Romance - Stran 14avtor: Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2007 - 300 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1870 - 778 strani
...filled with essays, 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...when it ought to be resisted and when to be obeyed." — HAWTHORNE. Make out a draft on G. Callum & Co., payable to order of Obed Lingum, Jr. Amt. $ 335.... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 strani
...doubtful one? The Erasmians think there is. 'The greatest obstacle to being heroic,' writes Hawthorne, 'is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove...is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom is to know when it ought to be resisted and when to be obeyed.' Well, the Erasmians would agree to... | |
 | Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1857 - 312 strani
...of another reader than its prefent owner. Let us fee what the paflages are. " The greateft obftacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove onefelf a fool ; the trueft heroifm is to refift the doubt, and the profoundeft wifdom, to know when... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 strani
...part in our ceremonies, when the burdens imposed upon their membership shall have been relieved. " The greatest obstacle to being heroic, is the doubt...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." — Hawthorne. THE TEMPLAR'S UNIFORM.* Bj Satin I3J. Simons, t?. Crta». C. 1i. HS HAVING been requested... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 624 strani
...the grate, and a closet right at hand, where there was still a bottle or two in the champagne-basket, and a residuum of claret in a box, — quitted, I...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 when it ought to be... | |
 | 1875 - 444 strani
...hereafter is ever turning into here; the future is ever becoming now. '.:,.:". AetnsHawthorne said: " The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 458 strani
...project which forms the basis of his narrative ! ' The greatest obstacle to being heroic,' he says, ' is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.' Never can it be said that Hawthorne casts a shadow over enthusiasm. Often, doubtless, in his own mind... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 448 strani
...greatest obstacle to being heroic,' he says, ' is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove on v^s self a fool ; the truest heroism is to resist the...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.' Never can it be said that Hawthorne casts a shadow over enthusiasm. Often, doubtless, in his own mind... | |
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