Nature's noblemen are everywhere, in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.


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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appro...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you wi...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human l...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, withou...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ev...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve...
NATHANIEL COTTON
Most of us are capable of more than we believe.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek t...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a ki...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
NATHANIEL EMMONS
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE
While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE
Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN