 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 Atlantic Monthly - Stran 4211870Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1905 - 730 strani
...chapter from The Blithedale Romance for my wife, and paused a bit after the following sentence : — ' The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt...when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.' " That's good enough," said I, " for Father Russell's ' Winged Words '—I think I'll send it to him."... | |
 | 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 - 894 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1926 - 274 strani
...life. "The better 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 1 |to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 strani
...life. The better life! Possibly, it would hardly look so, now; it is enough if it looked so, then. ite bare, and others still covered with yellow skin, and hair that has known the earth-damps) Yet, after all, let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious, to follow out one's day-dream to... | |
 | 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... | |
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