What is the meaning of this quote?
"iron rust from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors for the mind."

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Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.