Friends are the leaders of ...

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
 Amos Bronson Alcott

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
 Daniel Jacobs
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
 Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
 Amos Bronson Alcott