“ Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroic virtue. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ”
- Bryant H. McGill- Copy
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“ Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ First, almost all of us can do heroic things with our lives if we believe in ourselves and our goals. Second, most directions we need to actualize our goals are housed within ourselves. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ Identifying your enthusiasms requires courage and heroic creative vision. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue: every natural action is graceful, every heroic act is also decent and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. ”
- Warren G. Harding- Copy
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“ To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. ”
- Ellen Goodman- Copy
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“ We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, that even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage. ”
- Richard Watson Gilder- Copy
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“ America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ”
- Warren Gamaliel Harding- Copy
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“ Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. ”
- Luigi Pirandello- Copy
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“ Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ”
- Thomas C. Haliburton- Copy
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“ If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
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“ No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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