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    Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

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    The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

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    Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

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    Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

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    Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

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    Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

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    That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

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    Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

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    The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

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    The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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    The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

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    The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

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    The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

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    The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

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    The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

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    The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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    The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

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    The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

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    The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

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    The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

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    There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

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    The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

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    There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

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    The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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    To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

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    Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

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    Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

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    Truth is a pathless land.

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    We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

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    The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

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    You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.

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    Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.

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    The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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    We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

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    What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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    What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

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    What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

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    Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

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    ...a person never really knows how he or she will react at those worst moments, do they? Each of us hopes to be brave, to be kind, to be heroic. But how often do we get the chance to find out which it'll be?

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    At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did not want the smooth conformable man, the slick hypocrite who could so politely maneuver his way into the rewards of high politics and high society. They wanted his very opposite, the clever thief. The man who thrived not by using the well oiled wheels of society but by opposing them and cheating them; by attending to the well-being of his own heroic self.

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    Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.

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    Don’t waste your time trying to look all bad at me. See, I know you, man,” Howard said. “School Bus Sam. Mr. Fireman. You go all heroic, but then you disappear. Don’t you? It kind of comes and goes with you. Everyone last night is all, ‘Where’s Sam? Where’s Sam?’ And I had to say, ‘Well, kids, Sam is off with Astrid the Genius because Sam can’t be hanging out with regular people like us. Sam has to go off with his hot blond girlfriend.’” “She’s not my girlfriend,” Sam said, and instantly regretted it. Howard laughed, delighted to have provoked him. “See, Sam, you always got to be in your own little world, too good for everyone, while me and Captain Orc and our boys here, we’re always going to be around. You step away, and we step up.

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    Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll fell bad about it later." Vinci looked at him. "That's your defiant speech?" "Get used to it," said Marcus. "There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from.

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    He kept fighting with his dying breath. He fought valiantly for all the good it did.

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    His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.

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    I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

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    I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” - The Narrator.

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    If I say I will protect you, I will." ~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neill

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    If it absolutely, positively, has to be done overnight.

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    If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you," he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse." ~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil