Hero Quotes (Page 35)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity."

Men Hurt Hero

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence."

Wise Hero Gay

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay."

War Hero Regret

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved."

Hero Has Beens Remarkable

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Viola Davis Actress, Producer

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"I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot."

Book Spiritual Hero

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

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"Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?"

Book Stars Hero

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

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"It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

Thinking Men Hero

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men."

Men Book Hero

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."

Country Mother Hero

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero."

Government Hero Thieves

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up."

Opportunity Taken Hero

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them."

People Thinking Hero

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes."

People Hero Notes

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Men Knowing Hero

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?"

Life Use Hero

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