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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate. — George Eliot
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example… — C. V. Wedgwood
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient… — C. V. Wedgwood
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man… — Benjamin Haydon
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was… — A. E. Hotchner
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a… — William Hazlitt
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. — Heinrich Heine
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. — Sigmund Freud
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
One brave deed makes no hero. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done… — Theodore Roosevelt
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other… — Gerald Hausman
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody… — Criss Jami
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have… — George Bernard Shaw
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain… — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. — C.S. Lewis
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better… — Charles de Gaulle
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and… — Charles Horton Cooley

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