 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 16avtor: Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 - 288 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 strani
...— Whittier. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes aud patriote ? — Seneca. neroism is to resist the doubt ; and the profonndest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 strani
...— WMttier. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots ? — Seneca. us. one'e eelf a fool. — The truest heroism is to resist the doubt ; and the profoundeet wisdom to know... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1910 - 498 strani
..." The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt;...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." There is a life philosophy for you, apropos of an April snowstorm! And the paragraph — in The Blithedale... | |
 | 1870 - 892 strani
...never, never more for me — Why did we meet ? FVM HEROISM. — The greatest obstacle to being heroic ia the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's...; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt ;' and tho profoundeat wisdom t« know when it ought to be resisted and when to be obeyed. EXERCISE YOTJR... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin - 1914 - 280 strani
...willing to be scorned as an idiot. Many of us can stand almost anything but that. Hawthorne has written: "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." All Christian service contains that risk; we are constantly doing things that men of a certain reputation... | |
 | 1914 - 878 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... | |
 | 1870 - 782 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 Lingurn, Jr. Amt. $ 335.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 strani
...author Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American author The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt...whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...them. IEAN GENET (1910-86), French playwright, novelist. Prisoner oí tove.pl. 1 (1986; ir. 1989). 28 TEVENSON (1850-94), Scoilish novelist, essayist, poet....I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping it be obeyed. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 11804-64), US author. The Blithefüle Romance, ch. 2 (1852). 29 Once... | |
 | Cornelius F. Delaney - 1994 - 268 strani
...Hollingsworth, Zenobia, or Priscilla, or none of them, and the result of his uncertainty is paralysis: "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt...whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool."34 For all his efforts to "bring his spirit into manifold accordance" with others, Coverdale... | |
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