A. C. Bradley Quotes, Taken Quotes, Hero Quotes

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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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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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

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A man can be a hero in any profession

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

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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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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

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That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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