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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
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George Foreman
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
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Kitty Kelley
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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Baltasar Gracian
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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
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Doug Horton
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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Will Rogers
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Calculation never made a hero.
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John Henry Newman
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Samuel Johnson
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
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John Barth
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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
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Gerald W. Johnson
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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H. L. Mencken
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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
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Michael Jordan
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Winston Churchill
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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Jean Paul
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One brave deed makes no hero.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Bishop Porteous
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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May Sarton
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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Alphonse De Lamartine
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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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Benjamin Disraeli
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
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Will Rogers
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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Henry Miller
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Bertolt Brecht
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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Will Rogers
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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
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Helen Hayes
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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Doris Lessing
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Jean Baudrillard
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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David Lloyd George
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What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
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Roy Thompson
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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George Bernard Shaw
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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
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C. D. Andrews
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