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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. - James Ellis A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-trust is the essence of heroism. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay--Heroism 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, Essays--Heroism--Introduction Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them. - Henry Fielding Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wahlverwandtschaften (II, 5, Aus Ottilien's Tagebuche) In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own. - Henry Hallam, History of Europe During the Middle Ages (book I) 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, Marco Bozzaris 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, Description of Hungary, Anno 1599, Lansdowne Manuscript 775, vol. 149, British Museum A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world. - Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 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. . . . . 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, Casabianca As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway Up rose the hero,--on his piercing eye Sat observation; on each glance of thought Decision follow'd, as the thunderbolt Pursues the flash. - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Lord Home Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 157), (Pope's translation) Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. - Joseph Hopkinson, Hail, Columbia! 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), Carmina (IV, 9, 25) 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. - Edgar Watson Howe 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, The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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