Hawthorne

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“A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“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 (1804–1864)

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)