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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
Source: Character Ch. VI -
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.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
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Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
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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.
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
Source: Collected essays (1959) -
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
Source: Letter to John Adams, 17 June 1782 -
Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;Source: Charity 244
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