Aisha Hinds Quotes, Hero Quotes, Book Quotes

There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

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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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If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

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The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

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Truth is a pathless land.

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

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

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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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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hero Quotes , Should Quotes

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

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That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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