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Heroes: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd Out of the powerful regions under earth, Help me this once.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 10.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 107.

God helps those who help themselves.— ALGERNON SIDNEY — Discourse Concerning Government. Ch. II. Pt. XXIII.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.— BAILEY — Festus. Proem. L. 114.

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 1.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.— CARLYLE — Sartor Resartus. Organic

Filaments. If Hero mean sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?— CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero-Worship.

Lecture IV. Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man.— CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero-Worship.

Lecture I. He's of stature somewhat low- Your hero always should be tall, you know.— CHURCHILL — The Rosciad. L. 1,029.

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. The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.— EMERSON — Essays. Heroism.

Introduction. 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.— MRS. HEMANS — Casabianca.

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. XV. L. 157.

Pope's trans. Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.— JOSEPH HOPKINSON — Hail, Columbia!

Il faut être bien héros pour l'être aux yeux de son valet-de-chambre. A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. b. MARSHAL CATINAT. Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valetde-chambre. No man is a hero to his valet. C. MME. DE CORNUEL. See MLLE AISSÉ- Lettres. 161. Es gibt für den Kammerdiener keinen Helden. To a valet no man is a hero.— GOETHE — Wahlverwandtschaften. II. 5.

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