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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

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For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

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God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

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Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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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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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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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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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

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The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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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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