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My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
Author:
Source: None
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart
One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus--Proem (l. 114)
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As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
Author: Philip James Bailey
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!
Author: Lucien Boyer
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 1)
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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?
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero-Worship (lecture IV)
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist,
universally among Mankind.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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.]
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sartor Resartus--Organic Filaments
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He's of stature somewhat low--
Your hero always should be tall, you know.
Author: Charles Churchill
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.]
Author: Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel
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.
Author: Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel
Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Heroism--Introduction
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To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Author: Fitz-Greene Halleck
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.
Author: Richard Hansard
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.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Casabianca
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Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.
Author: Joseph Hopkinson
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: The World's Age
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Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
[Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur
valets-de-chambre.]
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
Source: Les Caracteres
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 194)
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