Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody,
and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keinen Helden.
To a valet no man is a hero.
Goethe—Wahlverwandtschaften, II. 5. Aus
Ottilien's Tagebuche.
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| text = <poem>But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Fitz-Greene Halleck—Marco Bozzaris.
It hath been an antient custom among them
[Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but
he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was
lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys
by the number of fethers in his cappe.
Richard Hansard—Description of Hungary,
Anno 1599. Lansdowne MS. 775. Vol.149.
British Museum.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
The flames roll'd on—he would not go
Without his Father's word;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
Felicia D. Hemans—Casabianca.
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XV. L. 157
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Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson—Hail, Columbia!
Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urgentur, ignotique longa
Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but
they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their
praises.
Horace—Carmina. IV. 9. 25.
The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be
supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.
Washington Irving—The Sketch Book. Westminster Abbey.
Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from
hand to hand.
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Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur
valets-de-chambre.
Rarely do they appear. great before their
valets.
La Bruyère—Caractères.
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| text = <poem>There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 194.
Crowds speak in heroes.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Bk. IV. Ch.
III.
There is never any real danger in allowing a
pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on
it. One sees him always over and over again
kicking his pedestal out from under him, and
using it to batter a world with.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Bk. V. Pt. III. Ch. XVI.
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero
is as much as one should say,—a hero.
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'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves
Of a legendary virtue caned upon our father's
graves.
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Tel a est6 miraculeux au monde, auquel sa
femme et son valet n'ont rien veu seulement de
remarquable; peu d'hommes ont este admirez
par leur domestiques.
Such an one has been, as it were, miraculous
in the world, in whom his wife and valet have
seen nothing even remarkable; few men have
been admired by their servants.
Montaigne;—Essays. Bk. III. Ch. II.
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Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!
Dr. Thos. Morell—Words used by Handel
in Joshua, and Judas Maccabueus. (Introduced in stage version of Lee's Rival Queens.
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of these things as I do.
Plutarch—De Iside. Ch. XXIV. Also in
Regnum et Imperatorum. Apothegmata. II.
28. (Tauchnitz Ed.)
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| text = <poem>Do we weep for the heroes who died for us,
Who living were true and tried for us,
And dying sleep side by side for us;
The martyr band
That hallowed our land
With the blood they shed in a tide for us?
Abram J. Ryan—C. S. A.
The last flash . . . and the hideous attack
Dies like a wisp of storm—discouraged flame;
And soon these battered heroes will come back,
The same but yet not the same.
Louis Untermeyer—Return of the Soldiers.
