“The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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