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All the heroes, the fire fighters and police men are dying. Don't forget them, many are still alive.
-James Dye
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
-George Eliot
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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 weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays and English Traits Heroism, 1841
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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.
-D. J. Enright
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notebook E, 1945
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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
-George Foreman
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garibaldi
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
-Jean Genet
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
-David Lloyd George
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
-Johann von Goethe
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
-Johann von Goethe
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
-Baltasar Gracian
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
-Helen Hayes
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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
-G. W. F. Hegel
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
-G. W. F. Hegel
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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
-Edmund Hillary
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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
-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.
-Edward W. Howe
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
-Victor Hugo
Les Mis, 1862
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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.
-Aldous Huxley
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Books about Heroes/Heroism
