"The hero is he who is immovably centered."
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"The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails."
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"If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age."
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"O friend, never strike sail to a fear!"
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"I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom."
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"Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment."
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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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"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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"People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint."
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"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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"The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not."
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"Greatness once and forever has down with opinion."
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"The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity"
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"But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge."
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"Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work."
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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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"The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him."
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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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"The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss."
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"The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes."
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