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

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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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

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That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear'. Tell this to everybody-'Have no fear'.

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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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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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