EVIL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1 An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
2 She knew that her deed had been evil; she could have no faith, therefore, that its result would be good.
3 Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
4 It appalled her, nevertheless, to discern here, again, a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself.
5 You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend," answered the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage companion, "else you would surely have heard of Mistress Hester Prynne and her evil doings.
6 But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face.
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