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O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
War
C. D. Andrews

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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Heroes and Heroism
C. D. Andrews

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Abstinence
Natalie Clifford Barney

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Heroes and Heroism
John Barth

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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Heroes and Heroism
Jean Baudrillard

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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Ancestry
Nicholas Boileau

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Time and Time Management
Daniel J. Boorstin

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Heroes and Heroism
Bertolt Brecht

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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Heroes and Heroism
Thomas Carlyle

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Song is the heroics of speech.
Music
Thomas Carlyle

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Heroes and Heroism
Calvin Coolidge

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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Heroes and Heroism
Benjamin Disraeli

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
Heroes and Heroism
English Proverb

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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
Heroes and Heroism
George Foreman

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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
Heroes and Heroism
David Lloyd George

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Books - Reading
Edward Gibbon

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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Heroes and Heroism
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Heroes and Heroism
Baltasar Gracian

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Failure
Thomas C. Haliburton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun