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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Heroes and Heroism
Bishop Porteous

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
Heart
Proverb

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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
Heroes and Heroism
Will Rogers

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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
Heroes and Heroism
Will Rogers

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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Heroes and Heroism
Will Rogers

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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Heroes and Heroism
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Heroes and Heroism
May Sarton

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Heroes and Heroism
George Bernard Shaw

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If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Averages
Alfred P. Sloan

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Fame
Socrates

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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Glory
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
Heroes and Heroism
Roy Thompson

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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Vision
Henry David Thoreau

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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Coward and Cowardice
Source Unknown

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Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Romance and Romanticism
Source Unknown

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No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
Revenge
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Heroes and Heroism
Source Unknown

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Coward and Cowardice
Bishop Westcott

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Courage
Alfred North Whitehead

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Professions and Professionals
Walt Whitman

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One brave deed makes no hero.
Heroes and Heroism
John Greenleaf Whittier

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