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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh; that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty; of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. - Henri-Frederic Amiel There is an army of memorable sufferers who suffer inwardly and not outwardly. The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly. More heroism has there been displayed in the household and in the closet, I think, than on the most memorable military battlefields of history. - Henry Ward Beecher If we must have heroes and wars wherein to make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with wrong; no hero so fit to be sung as he who has gained the bloodless victory of truth and mercy. - Horace Bushnell Heroism--the divine relation which in all times unites a great man to other men. - Thomas Carlyle The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic. - Thomas Carlyle A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another. - Charles Caleb Colton We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire. - Charles Caleb Colton Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind, and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. - James Abram Garfield Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. This makes nothing in their favor, but is a proud compliment to man's nature. Whatever he is or does, he cannot entirely efface the stamp of the divinity on him. Let him strive ever so, he cannot divest himself of his natural sublimity of thought and affection, however he may pervert or deprave it to ill. - William Hazlitt (1) In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always either doing or dying. - Roswell Dwight Hitchcock True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which should prevail. And hence it never falters in the faith that always and everywhere sin must be repressed, and righteousness exalted. - John McClellan Holmes Never was there a time, in the history of the world, when moral heroes were more needed. The world waits for such, the providence of God has commanded science to labor and prepare the way for such. For them she is laying her iron tracks, and stretching her wires, and bridging the oceans. But where are they? Who shall breathe into our civil and political relations the breath of a higher life? Who shall touch the eyes of a paganized science, and of a pantheistic philosophy, that they may see God? Who shall consecrate to the glory of God the triumphs of science? Who shall bear the life-boat to the stranded and perishing nations. - Mark Hopkins Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. - Alphonse de Lamartine Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness. - William Morley Punshon Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character. - Edwin Percy Whipple
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