“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.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance (1852), chapter 2

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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