 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 - Page 19by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | American essays - 1870 - 778 pages
...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.... | |
 | American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1857 - 312 pages
...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 pages
...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 - American fiction - 1875 - 624 pages
...months to come. The greater, surely, was my heroism, when, puffing out a final whiff of cigar-smoke, I quitted my cosey pair of bachelor-rooms, — with...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...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 - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...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 - Authors, American - 1875 - 448 pages
...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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