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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

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You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

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... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

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