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Description: The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. As punishment, she must wear a scarlet letter 'A' (for "adultery"). Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin and guilt.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Life is made up of marble and mud. Pin
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Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I have not lived, but only dreamed about living. Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness has no succession of events, because it is a part of eternity;
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Alas that the artist, whether in poetry or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Alas that the artist, whether in poetry or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes... Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I do detest all offices,—all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not. Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it;
Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream,
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream, Pin
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Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
Description: Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
