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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? -
Jeanette Winterson
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. -
William Shakespeare
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. -
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The great destroyers of nations and men are comfort, plenty and security. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. -
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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. -
Norman Schwarzkopf
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What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair. -
Roy Thompson
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. -
Raymond Chandler
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals. -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. -
George Eliot
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. -
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure. -
Aldous Huxley
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. -
David Lloyd George
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. -
May Sarton
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