Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hero Quotes, Greek Quotes

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

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Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

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The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

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The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life...Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

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God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.

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