Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
