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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Author: C. D. Andrews
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
Author: Jean Anouilh
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Author: John Barth
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Author: Winston Churchill
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Author: Will Rogers
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Author: Bette Davis
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Author: Whitehead
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
Author: D. J. Enright
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Author: David Lloyd George
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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Author: Doug Horton
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Author: Washington Irving
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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Author: Gerald W. Johnson
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Author: Kitty Kelley
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Author: Doris Lessing
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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Calculation never made a hero.
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Author: Jean Paul
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
Author: Mark Sullivan
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The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Author: Angus Wilson
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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