Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hero Quotes, Greek Quotes

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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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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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

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God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

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It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

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

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

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Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

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Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

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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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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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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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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

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

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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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