"No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages."
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"He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem."
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"Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic."
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"A heroic nature is very Greek."
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"Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him."
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"The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others."
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"I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth."
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"He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results."
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"If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission."
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"The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great."
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"Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours."
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"There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed."
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"Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth."
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"The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps."
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"Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world."
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"He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself."
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"Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues."
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"We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy."
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"We, her children, are heroic, dersperate."
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"What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors."
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