 | 1852 - 536 pagina’s
...faint and not very faithful shadowing" of Brook Farm, in Roxbury, which (now a little more than teu years ago) was occupied and cultivated by a company...left his snug town quarters to go into the wilderness m search of a better life. " The better life ! Possibly," he says, " it would hardly look so, now ;... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 - 310 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 778 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1857 - 312 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...! 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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 656 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
