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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Men, Careers

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• Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the warrior King Rajasinghe I also known as Sitawaka Rajasingha, Edirille Rala born in Colombo and baptised Domingo Corea, who returned to the village of his ancestors Atulugama near Sitawaka and turned against the Portuguese.

  Dominicus Corea

  Kings, Warrior, Son

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• Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

  Mary Collyer

  Answers, Appearance, Proof

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

  Gail Collins

  People, Needs, Remember

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• life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Life, Law, Lessons

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.17, Knopf

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• a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

  George Sand

  Half

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

  Alex Gibney

  Suicide, Thinking, Opinion

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Singleness Of Purpose, Rights

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• It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Courage, Men, Coward

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

  Henry Fielding

  Vanity, Generosity, Different

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The Adventures of Joseph Andrews”, p.52

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• Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds
  A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
  The swell of pity, not to be confined
  Within the scanty limits of the mind.

  William Cowper

  Men, Heroic Deeds, Mind

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.98

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• Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hero, Greatness, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.404, e-artnow

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• I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.

  Megan Fox

  Hero, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Adventure, Journey

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.110, Baker Books

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• Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

  Alan Hirsch

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.110, Baker Books

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• Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Hero, Men, Names

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• In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

  Allan Bloom

  Greatness, America, Achievement

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

  Jonathan Raban

  Feet, America, Rude

  1990 HuntingMister Heartbreak, ch.2.

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, May, Legends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.348, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

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• I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

  James Salter

  Tasks, World, Faces

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• First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Rocks, Years

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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