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How can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods?
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian.
A hero is no brave than an ordinary man, but he us brave five minutes longer.
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, 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.”
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Having seen what my injuries were, I knew it was not necessary to die.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course not; for one must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet. I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
Goethe.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Mad. Neckar.
Of two heroes, he is the greatest who esteems his rivals most.
Beaumelle.
Heroes In history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would should like poetry.
G.W.Curtis.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Rochefoucauld.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Lavater.
In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own.
Hallam.
A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Chesterfield.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angles may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
Colton.
Fear nothing so much as sin, and your moral heroism is complete.
C.Simmons.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
George Eliot.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Rousseau.
To live well in the quiet routine of life, to fill a little space because God wills it, to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties and little avocations; to smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching who does this, his works will follow him. He is one of God’s heroes.
Farrar.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have achieved.
Johnson.
However great the advantages which nature bestows on us, it is not she alone, but fortune in conjunction with her, which makes heroes.
Rochefoucauld.
Self trust is the essence of heroism.
Emerson.
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian.
A hero is no brave than an ordinary man, but he us brave five minutes longer.
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, 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.”
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Having seen what my injuries were, I knew it was not necessary to die.
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course not; for one must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet. I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
Goethe.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Mad. Neckar.
Of two heroes, he is the greatest who esteems his rivals most.
Beaumelle.
Heroes In history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would should like poetry.
G.W.Curtis.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Rochefoucauld.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Lavater.
In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own.
Hallam.
A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Chesterfield.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angles may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
Colton.
Fear nothing so much as sin, and your moral heroism is complete.
C.Simmons.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
George Eliot.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Rousseau.
To live well in the quiet routine of life, to fill a little space because God wills it, to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties and little avocations; to smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching who does this, his works will follow him. He is one of God’s heroes.
Farrar.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have achieved.
Johnson.
However great the advantages which nature bestows on us, it is not she alone, but fortune in conjunction with her, which makes heroes.
Rochefoucauld.
Self trust is the essence of heroism.
Emerson.
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