If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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