Nathaniel Hawthorne on wisdom

“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 it be obeyed.”

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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