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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
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“My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.”
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“My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.”
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“The hero is the world-man, in whose heart
One passion stands for all, the most indulged.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus--Proem (l. 114)
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“As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus--Proem (l. 114)
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“Ferryman ho! In the night so black
Hark to the clank of iron;
'Tis heroes of the Yser,
'Tis sweethearts of glory,
'Tis lads who are unafraid!
Ferryman ho!”
Lucien Boyer Quotes Source: La Maison du Passeur
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“I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 1)
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“Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture I)
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“If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture IV)
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“Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist,
universally among Mankind.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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“A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his
valet.
[Fr., Il faut etre bien heros pour l'etre aux yeux de son
valet-de-chambre.]”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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“He's of stature somewhat low--
Your hero always should be tall, you know.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,029)
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“No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person
whatever he says has an enhanced value.”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essay--Heroism
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“The hero is not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats;
Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Heroism--Introduction
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“To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Wahlverwandtschaften (II, 5, Aus Ottilien's Tagebuche)
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“But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.”
Fitz-Greene Halleck Quotes Source: Marco Bozzaris
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“It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none
should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie
yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the
number of fethers in his cappe.”
Richard Hansard Quotes Source: Description of Hungary, Anno 1599, Lansdowne Manuscript 775, vol. 149, British Museum
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“The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
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The flames roll'd on--he would not go
Without his Father's word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.”
Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Quotes Source: Casabianca
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“Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 157), (Pope's translation)
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“Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”
Joseph Hopkinson Quotes Source: Hail, Columbia!
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“Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned,
and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their
praises.
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urgentur, ignotique longa
Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 9, 25)
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“The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our
recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor
of to-morrow.”
Washington Irving Quotes Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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“Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes Source: The World's Age
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