Truth is quite beyond the ...

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
 James Russell Lowell

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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
 James Russell Lowell
That best academy, a mother's knee.
 James Russell Lowell
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
 James Russell Lowell
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
 James Russell Lowell
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
 James Russell Lowell